start server: listen tcp :443: bind: permission denied

[monomycelium]

I love this speedy file server! But when I start the server, I cannot use ports 80 and 443 (because they are restricted, I believe), so I have to start as root. Is there a workaround? I have apache, the webserver, installed on my server running Arch Linux ARM, so a user http was created. But starting the server from that user still can't bind to those ports.

[majal]

In Linux, port numbers below 1024 are privileged ports. The can only be bound using root or sudo privileges. There are workarounds, but they tend to be complex.

Example: https://stackoverflow.com/q/413807