Rails - Feb 2006 - rails/lighttpd on os x

I''m trying to set up my Rails development app for public access on OS  
X. I''m using the bundled lighttpd server. The first thing i tried to  
do is simply start lighttpd on port 80. When i set "server.port = 80"
in lighttpd.conf i get the following error message after running ruby  
script/server:

(network.c.265) can''t bind to port 80 Permission denied

i have turned off the apache server (via sharing preferences) and  
also made sure no httpd service is running. Anybody has encountered  
this?

the second thing i tried is simply to start lighttpd on port 8080 and  
do a port mapping from 80 to 8080 (airport). This works fine when  
accessed thru localhost:8080. However, when i try to access this from  
the outside (i''m using a dynamic dns service mapped to my external  
IP), it still points to the the default apache WebServer document  
root (library/webserver/documents). so i created an alias to /public/ 
dispatch.fcgi, named it index.html and dropped it into /library/ 
webserver/documents. This now brings up an empty page (activity  
window indicates load errors) but the lighttpd trail indicates no  
errors. what am i doing wrong?

if anybody could help me out making either of the two approaches  
work, that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Sebastian

As a regular user you cannot start a server on a port <1024
You should start lighttpd as root and specify the user name and group in
lighttpd.conf
server.username            = "john"
server.groupname           = "users"

This way your lighttpd will start on port 80, and the service will belong to
you.

Bogdan

On 2/26/06, Sebastian Friedrich <sebastian@feldpost.com>
wrote:
>
> I''m trying to set up my Rails development app for public access on
OS
> X. I''m using the bundled lighttpd server. The first thing i tried
to
> do is simply start lighttpd on port 80. When i set "server.port =
80"
> in lighttpd.conf i get the following error message after running ruby
> script/server:
>
> (network.c.265) can''t bind to port 80 Permission denied
>
> i have turned off the apache server (via sharing preferences) and
> also made sure no httpd service is running. Anybody has encountered
> this?
>
> the second thing i tried is simply to start lighttpd on port 8080 and
> do a port mapping from 80 to 8080 (airport). This works fine when
> accessed thru localhost:8080. However, when i try to access this from
> the outside (i''m using a dynamic dns service mapped to my external
> IP), it still points to the the default apache WebServer document
> root (library/webserver/documents). so i created an alias to /public/
> dispatch.fcgi, named it index.html and dropped it into /library/
> webserver/documents. This now brings up an empty page (activity
> window indicates load errors) but the lighttpd trail indicates no
> errors. what am i doing wrong?
>
> if anybody could help me out making either of the two approaches
> work, that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
>
> Sebastian
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