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Mochiweb Port 80

I am attempting to run BeepBeep through Mochiweb on Port 80. It works if I type sudo ./start_server.sh. Are there any security risks with running Mochiweb like this? If so how to remedy?

Thanks!

Solution

  • running any service as root has risk. It's hard to answer your question properly without more information though. Is this a production service or a dev instance you are running?

    If production I would recommend running the mochiweb instance on a different port so it can run as a user and then using a proxy like nginx or apache to listen on 80 and forward the request.