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If I request http://localhost do browsers try a specific port?
Perhaps people set the default port server side? Or must ports be specified (eg. http://localhost:1234)?
I'm trying to make it as simple as I can for a client to connect to a locally hosted "remote controller" website.
Seph Reed
Posted 2017-07-31T21:25:19.353
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There are three well known ports commonly used by web servers:
Port 80: for HTTP.
Port 8080 is often used as an alternative to port 80, for applications such as Apache Tomcat and Atlassian JIRA.
Port 443: for HTTPS.
You can, of course configure your local web server to use whatever ports you like.
DavidPostill
Posted 2017-07-31T21:25:19.353
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Thank you. I've also just found that certain permissions (sudo) are required for ports < 1024. – Seph Reed – 2017-07-31T21:36:52.770
@SephReed On Unix systems, yes. – DavidPostill – 2017-07-31T21:37:51.537
I wasn't until I tried port 80 as per directed by this answer. It's not really in total relation to this question, but it still seems useful enough to share. – Seph Reed – 2017-07-31T21:39:09.260
This link, posted above, might be a nice thing to add to the answer, just to wrap everything up: https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xhtml
– Seph Reed – 2017-07-31T21:39:46.8932
Following is some of the recommended localhost ports for local developments.
Express.js(or LoopBack ) Dev Port: 3000, 8000, 8080 (by npm start)Angular Webpack Dev Port: 4200 (by ng serve)Ionic Webpack Dev Port: 8100, 8200 (by ionic serve or ionic lab)...
List of Well-Known Ports Port numbers range from 0 to 65535, but only port numbers 0 to 1023 are reserved for privileged services and designated as well-known ports. The following list of well-known port numbers specifies the port used by the server process as its contact port.
Well-known ports range from 0 through 1023. Registered ports are 1024 to 49151. Dynamic ports (also called private ports) are 49152 to 65535.
Wencheng Li
Posted 2017-07-31T21:25:19.353
Reputation: 123
The default port in Laravel is also 80. (with php artisan serve) – AlmostPitt – 2019-03-28T10:43:47.477
1http by default is port 80 while https defaults to 443. If you are hosting on a different port the client must specify which port. – Zina – 2017-07-31T21:27:55.007
strange. I though port numbers were 4 digits long. If setting up a port, would it be 0080. My current program crashes if given a less than four digit number... but perhaps that's an issue elsewhere. – Seph Reed – 2017-07-31T21:32:30.880
got it, sudo is required for ports < 1024 – Seph Reed – 2017-07-31T21:35:51.947
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setting up the port where? and BTW the port numbers are from 0 to 65535 see here for list of common port usage
– Zina – 2017-07-31T21:36:22.247