Http server in Cloud9 autorun

[bchen...@gmail.com]

Hello,
I have been creating my http server running in BBB with the standard method, create an server and listen in port 8888..
var server = http.createServer(function (req, res) {}).listen(8888); And it works fine.

But when i placed the JS file in cloud9/autorun folder, it dosen't work anymore. As i understand, the autorun program has already occupied the listening port 8888, and caused the conflict of using port 8888.

So i wonder if there is any solution behind this? Can't i use both of autorun mecanism and listening port 8888, or i have to give up one of these two? Or there is another port number to use to build the http server?  

Thanks,
Chen

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On Wed, 25 May 2016 02:28:26 -0700 (PDT),
bchen...@gmail.com declaimed the following:

>
>But when i placed the JS file in cloud9/autorun folder, it dosen't work
>anymore. As i understand, the autorun program has already occupied the
>listening port 8888, and caused the conflict of using port 8888.
>
>So i wonder if there is any solution behind this? Can't i use both of
>autorun mecanism and listening port 8888, or i have to give up one of these
>two? Or there is another port number to use to build the http server?
>

There is nothing sacred about 8888.

Formal HTTP servers normally bind to port 80.

Any port number >1024 is a non-reserved port, and does not need special
privileges to use.

A common choice for "user" HTTP servers is port 8080.
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