Re: Do you have to install Apache Webserver 2.0 under root?

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On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 01:50, Anthony Colon wrote:
> Or could you install it under a shell account?
> 

One of the reason it runs under root (at least in a default install) is
that it binds to port 80. Ports <1024 need root privileges. You could
bind to port 8080 and not need to be root.

There may be other reasons which would stop it running under a shell
account.

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