[racket] Running a webserver on port 80

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Jordan Schatz <jordan at noionlabs.com> wrote:

> What is considered the best way to run a web server as non-root and
> accept connections on port 80?
>
> I believe Apache handles it by being started as root, binding to the
> port, and then dropping privileges. I don't think that the racket web
> server knows to drop any privileges?
>

Since you start the Web server via a function call in Racket program, your
program can just as easily call 'setuid' after starting the server.

I don't like to start it as root at all. I prefer to start a high port and
install a firewall redirect as you mention.

Jay


>
> I'm guessing that common practice is to use iptables to redirect to a
> high numbered port? What about iptables lack of support for IPv6 NAT? are
> there any commonly used work arounds?
>
> Thanks,
> Jordan
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