You run Galaxy is as non-root, likely as galaxy user. Only root can bind sockets to ports < 1024. If you want to use port 80, you need to configure Apache, nginx or another web server that will proxy requests to Galaxy.
The web servers run as root, so they can bind sockets to port 80.
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Lukasz
On 8/31/12 5:45 AM, Gaueko Erge wrote:
> Hi,
> On a fresh galaxy installation the server start fine when it looks at port 8080, but as soon as I change to port 80 I get the following error
> I think that is due to permissions since I have my galaxy inside a non-root galaxy user directory
> Any ideas on the best way to solve this would be appreciated
> Thanks
> --G
>
> Starting server in PID 8799.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "./scripts/paster.py", line 34, in <module>
> command.run()
> File "/usr/local/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/PasteScript-1.7.3-py2.7.egg/paste/script/command.py", line 84, in run
> invoke(command, command_name, options, args[1:])
> File "/usr/local/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/PasteScript-1.7.3-py2.7.egg/paste/script/command.py", line 123, in invoke
> exit_code = runner.run(args)
> File "/usr/local/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/PasteScript-1.7.3-py2.7.egg/paste/script/command.py", line 218, in run
> result = self.command()
> File "/usr/local/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/PasteScript-1.7.3-py2.7.egg/paste/script/serve.py", line 303, in command
> serve()
> File "/usr/local/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/PasteScript-1.7.3-py2.7.egg/paste/script/serve.py", line 287, in serve
> server(app)
> File "/usr/local/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/PasteDeploy-1.3.3-py2.7.egg/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 151, in server_wrapper
> **context.local_conf)
> File "/usr/local/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/PasteDeploy-1.3.3-py2.7.egg/paste/deploy/util/fixtypeerror.py", line 57, in fix_call
> val = callable(*args, **kw)
> File "/usr/local/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/Paste-1.6-py2.7.egg/paste/httpserver.py", line 1314, in server_runner
> serve(wsgi_app, **kwargs)
> File "/usr/local/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/Paste-1.6-py2.7.egg/paste/httpserver.py", line 1264, in serve
> threadpool_options=threadpool_options)
> File "/usr/local/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/Paste-1.6-py2.7.egg/paste/httpserver.py", line 1114, in __init__
> RequestHandlerClass, ssl_context)
> File "/usr/local/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/Paste-1.6-py2.7.egg/paste/httpserver.py", line 1094, in __init__
> RequestHandlerClass, ssl_context)
> File "/usr/local/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/Paste-1.6-py2.7.egg/paste/httpserver.py", line 328, in __init__
> HTTPServer.__init__(self, server_address, RequestHandlerClass)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 408, in __init__
> self.server_bind()
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/BaseHTTPServer.py", line 108, in server_bind
> SocketServer.TCPServer.server_bind(self)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 419, in server_bind
> self.socket.bind(self.server_address)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 224, in meth
> return getattr(self._sock,name)(*args)
> socket.error: [Errno 13] Permission denied
>
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