Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Run Apache as Non Root user on port other than 80

2008-12-03 Thread André Warnier
Vasanth Kumar ravi wrote: So i have changed the Listen port as 9080 and defined Virtual hosts for 9080 and 443. I tried to access the application using the url's above, but it failed. Now the question is. How can I access the application using the same url without mentioning the port number on

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Run Apache as Non Root user on port other than 80

2008-12-03 Thread Vasanth Kumar ravi
Well sudo is not allowed in our complaince/audit policy even for Dev boxes. so i will either run it on non standard ports and ask the app guys to access by mentioning the port for Dev environment or ask the sys admin to manage the apache(which they wont accept). thanks folks. On Thu, Dec 4, 2008

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Run Apache as Non Root user on port other than 80

2008-12-03 Thread Krist van Besien
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:28 AM, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vasanth Kumar ravi wrote: >> Well the problem is here is the root access. >> I am an application administrator and the root passwd is owned by the >> system administrator team. >> since this a dev setup, i got the roo

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Run Apache as Non Root user on port other than 80

2008-12-03 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Vasanth Kumar ravi wrote: > Well the problem is here is the root access. > I am an application administrator and the root passwd is owned by the > system administrator team. > since this a dev setup, i got the root passwd but for production they > would not give it. > so either I have to go for a p

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Run Apache as Non Root user on port other than 80

2008-12-03 Thread Vasanth Kumar ravi
Well the problem is here is the root access. I am an application administrator and the root passwd is owned by the system administrator team. since this a dev setup, i got the root passwd but for production they would not give it. so either I have to go for a port forward in production or ask the s

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Run Apache as Non Root user on port other than 80

2008-12-03 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Vasanth Kumar ravi wrote: > Ok so the only way to run them using the ports 80/443 is to run as Root > user . You *start* as root. The user and group directives have Apache change the context for serving all of the requests coming into the server, so they are NOT running in a root context (but as

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Run Apache as Non Root user on port other than 80

2008-12-03 Thread Vasanth Kumar ravi
Ok so the only way to run them using the ports 80/443 is to run as Root user . Thanks. On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:11 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Vasanth Kumar ravi wrote: > > Now the question is. > > > > How can I access the application using the same url without mentionin

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Run Apache as Non Root user on port other than 80

2008-12-03 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Vasanth Kumar ravi wrote: > Now the question is. > > How can I access the application using the same url without mentioning > the port number on the url. > I m not using any firewall here, so I cannot do a port fwd of 80 to 9080. You can't. The port assignment is the port used, the default is 80

[EMAIL PROTECTED] Run Apache as Non Root user on port other than 80

2008-12-03 Thread Vasanth Kumar ravi
All, Running Apache HTTP Server on port 80. Have defined 2 virtual hosts on 80/443. Currently running the apache under root user. my application url's are http://test.ap.com/Web/neo and https://test.ap.com/Web/neo I am able to access the url's mentioned above. *** Now we have