Solved - accessing river5 from port 80 on Dreamhost VPS
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Hanan Cohen
Jun 18, 2019, 6:41:21 AM6/18/19
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Hi,
New here.
Wanted to ask a question, someone else helped me so I am posting the solution here, for others to see. This is the first time I am working with node.js so I don't know how to read and Google error messages.
When I have changed config.json to
"httpPort": 80,
and restarted, I got some error lines that began like this.
River51 v0.5.9 running on port 80.
events.js:174
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^
Error: listen EACCES: permission denied 0.0.0.0:80
events.js:174
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^
Error: listen EACCES: permission denied 0.0.0.0:80
...
...
It turns out that my VPS doesn't allow an app that has no root permissions to use port 80.
I discovered that my hosting allows to proxy a port - between 8000 and 65535.
I have changed config.json to
"httpPort": 8080,
and set up a proxy and it worked.
HTH
Hanan Cohen
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