Hi,
On a fresh galaxy installation the server start fine when it looks at port
8080, but as soon as I change to port 80 I get the following error
I think that is due to permissions since I have my galaxy inside a non-root
galaxy user directory
Any ideas on the best way to solve this would be
You run Galaxy is as non-root, likely as galaxy user. Only root can bind sockets
to ports 1024. If you want to use port 80, you need to configure Apache,
nginx or another web server that will proxy requests to Galaxy.
The web servers run as root, so they can bind sockets to port 80.
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Lukasz
HI Gaueko,
If you are on a UNIX/LInux system, you are running into a security restriction
which requires root access to bind a sever to any port below 80. There are two
common methods. One is to use an Apache or Nginx proxy server that forwards to
your port, which has the advantage that you
