Hello Manuel, welcome to the list. The issue you're seeing is not a bug, it's a feature of the OS or, rather, of it's security settings. The same behavior can be observed on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, ... any UN*X OS basically: non root users can't bind to ports below 1024.
This limit can be changed (per user or per process), but I don't recommend this unless you understand all implications of doing so. There are other ways around this, such as starting the process as root and then dropping privileges, using a proxy that has such functionality, using iptables to redirect ports, etc. Regards On Friday, March 14, 2014 7:34:58 AM UTC+1, audi...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hello, > Thanks to the team for the great tool ! > I have minor issues on Mac OS Mavericks, just wanted to check before > creating an issue on google code. > > System > Mac OS 10.9.2 > $ which python > /usr/bin/python > $ python --version > Python 2.7.5 > > Steps > download web2py_src.zip > unzip the archive into $basedir > from an Mac administrator account, launch Terminal > $ cd $basedir > $ python web2py.py > ... > Version 2.9.4-stable+timestamp.2014.03.05.04.44.09 > ... > The web2py graphical interface launches > Leave "server ip" on "local" > Set "Server Port" to "80" > Enter a password in "Choose password" field > Click on "start server" > > Expected result > web2py framework, start listening on port 80 > > Actual result > The terminal output : > ERROR:Rocket.Errors.Port80:Socket 127.0.0.1:80 in use by other process > and it won't share. > WARNING:Rocket.Errors.Port80:Listener started when not ready. > > What have I tried > Check active ports with Apple's network utility (port scan) : no active > port between 10 and 100 > > Use > $ sudo python web2py.py > instead of > $ python web2py.py > Then you can actually launch web2py on port 80 > Terminal output : > ... > please visit: > http://127.0.0.1/ > starting browser... > > It seems this is related to Mac OS policy to keep use of some ports for > it's own usage. > My question is wether this is a bug or an enhancement request to have an > error message in the graphical web2py launch app to inform user ? > (When using the Mac OS package instead of the source version, you don't > have any feedback on this issue, the server is just not starting). > > As this is my first post on this list, let me know if I made any mistake. > thanks, > Manuel > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
