Re: [Cppcms-users] cppcms port

[Pierre C. <pi...@co...>]

On 6/10/20 2:11 AM, Jon Foster wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 12:07:14AM +0200, Pierre Couderc wrote:
>> I m trying to use cppcms on port 80 (inside a lan) and i do not success.
>>
>> It seems that there is a minimum port number of 1024...
>>
>> Is ther some good reason ?
>
> Hi Pierre!
>
> Hopefully you'll see this email.
>
> I'm glad you got things going but it doesn't appear that one of your
> questions was answered. The reason for there being a lower limit of
> 1024 is because its imposed by the OS, Linux. Unix considers ports
> below 1024 to be "privileged" and so they are reserved for the "super
> user", root. This is why you have to start it as root. This
> restriction is forced on any piece of software that tries to bind to
> a network port on Linux, BSD, ...
>
> - Jon
>
>
I did not know but I had supposed something like that... I shall add a 
nginx to deal with that and to serve static files.

Thank you very much.

Pierre