Non root user

Quick Tip : How to make Jetty webserver listen on port 80 as a non-root user

Reading Time: < 1 minute We had a requirement to run an application on a different port which was running at port 8080 (Jetty) by default . One of our Lift application was running at port 8080 on Linux (Ubuntu 13.04 ) machine & we wanted to run it at port 80. Usually on Linux machines, port 80 is protected. Typically only the superuser root can open it and ports Continue Reading