Running your node.js express web apps in port 80
You use node.js and express framework - you have made great choice! By default, express application will run on port 3000, and it is fine. In production environment, you may want to use nginx as a forward proxy (and I will write next post about it) but another way is to run your app in port 80. Assuming that your app.js already contains following: app.configure(function(){ app.set('port', process.env.PORT || 3000); ... }); In shell, you can type following command: PORT=80 node app.js or if you use forever , then: PORT=80 forever start app.js On your OSX you may get following warning: TypeError: Cannot read property 'getsockname' of undefined The cause for this is general problem - you need to have root privileges in order to run applications in port lower than 1024. To avoid this, you can type sudo PORT=80 node app.js and your application will work normally in port 80. Another common mistake is that you may still have Apache runnin...