But how does that alleviate the issue of haveing to browse to IP:Port? I'm not liking that in a production environment. Or am I missing something?
On Saturday, June 20, 2015 at 10:36:28 AM UTC-4, zladuric wrote: > > We set the port to whatever we want, but it's a common security and usage > practice to not use "low ports" (lower then 1024) for app servers. In fact, > in most operating systems, if you run the app server as a non-system user, > you _cannot_ bind to such port. > > The usual practice for Node.js (or, say, Tomcat, or Websphere or RoR or > any other app servers) to be bound to some high port (above 1024) and then > let nginx, apache, IIS or something else serve the port 80, and proxy over > requests to the app server. > > That way on one host you can even run multiple app servers with one web > server. > > Nothing would stop you to run as, say, root on Linux or a Mac, and bind > the Node.js app to port 80, but then your app has root privileges, and if > your code (or some of the modules you use) is buggy or has security > problems, your app would be a risk to the whole system. > > Zlatko > > On Saturday, June 20, 2015 at 3:43:51 AM UTC+2, Ray Jender wrote: >> >> >> So, for all of the example and demo code I have seen, they always include >> doing "node file.js" and then it echos back "Listening at: >> http://localhost:8080"; or similar. >> Which implies I have to browse to port 8080 to use the app. >> >> My question is how does this work in production? I have never had to >> browse to a website using a port number? I'm confused? >> How can I simply browse to a URL and not include a port number? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Ray >> >> >> -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/ed708615-1299-4272-adf2-81769c351b9c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
