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Sun, 12/04/2011 - 16:55
kidrecursive
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Hello, I've tried changing the appropriate .ini files but I still cannot get my Couchbase to listen on port 80 in Ubuntu. Other ports work fine. Is it possible for Couchbase single to use port 80?

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Tue, 12/06/2011 - 01:06
charlie
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sure,
port 80 is a so-called 'privileged port' meaning only root (and processes owned by root) have access to it.
So if couchdb is run as root, it will work.
Unless... there already is a process (apache) running on port 80. You could get rid of apache if you don't use it or configure apache to be a (reverse) proxy to the couch.
Furthermore, I personally don't think this is a big issue, but you may want to keep the number of root processes low for security reasons.

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Sat, 12/17/2011 - 18:08
dadicool
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in case you need it, the setting to run couchbase as root is in /opt/couchbase/etc/default/couchdb , just COUCHDB_USER to root and restart.

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