[Wylug-help] Alternative port number for http server

[ColinMayrael@wibble.org.uk]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Martin Rowe wrote:

> Apart from 80 what other ports are available for use by a web server.

As root, you can use any unused port (althought as you say, anything in
/etc/services would be a bad thing except 80 :) ). If the server isnt
being started by root, anything over 1024 can be used, 8080 is a popular
one, but that is also used by a lot of caching systems. 80/81/8081 is a
popular combination, with 443 for SSL connections.

Colin

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