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 restricted a context as you want to create for your requirements). --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx