Forum OpenACS Q&A: binding aolserver to port 80 on freebsd ports

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1: binding aolserver to port 80 on freebsd ports
Posted by Torben Brosten on 09/27/12 08:57 PM
Hi,

How does one modify openacs on FreeBSD ports so that aolserver runs on port 80?

I've tried appending ' -b NN.NN.NN.NN:80' to openacs_flags in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/openacs but get error:
Error: prebind: invalid entry: NN.NN.NN.NN:80 Permission denied

I've checked the IP number against iconfig, and also tried NN.NN.NN.NN:80,NN.NN.NN.NN:443

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2: Re: binding aolserver to port 80 on freebsd ports (response to 1)
Posted by Patrick Giagnocavo on 09/27/12 10:17 PM
Ports under 1024 are "privileged" and can only be started as the root user.

Thus you need to start the program as the root user, and pass -u username and -g groupname for the user and group that aolserver should switch to running as, once it has acquired port 80 (and 443 if using SSL).

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3: Re: binding aolserver to port 80 on freebsd ports (response to 2)
Posted by Torben Brosten on 09/27/12 10:26 PM
Hi Patrick,

Right. the user and group are also passed in the startup script flags.

I've been using a modified bash startup script that comes with openacs just fine. I just thought I'd try using the one that comes with ports.

The system is not accepting the binding flag for the ports startup script for openacs. I was wondering if there might be some FreeBSD system internal /etc/rc.conf type of thing that needs to be given an okay as well.

cheers,