[hunchentoot-devel] Best way to run Hunchentoot on Port 80, Proxy-Module for Hunchentoot

[Edi Weitz]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Christoph Senjak
<christoph.senjak at googlemail.com> wrote:

> As I am really annoyed by the confusing configuration-"possibilities"
> of apache, and as lighttpd doesnt support what I want to do in its
> stable release, I want to run hunchentoot in the first place. However,
> there are two problems:
>
> At first, I cannot run a usermode-process listening on port 80. I am
> using sbcl, so I could use sb-posix:setuid after starting hunchentoot
> and gaining port 80, removing root-privileges. Or I could forward port
> 80 to port 8000 via firewall policies.
>
> I would prefer the first possibility. The question is, if there is
> anything millitating against starting hunchentoot as root and then
> using setuid. I.e. any security issues that could result from it,
> anything that maybe wont work, etc.

I've done that a couple of times, but mainly for testing purposes.
I'm not aware of any problems, but maybe others are.

> Another thing is the question if there is some proxy- or
> passthrough-module for hunchentoot. I still have some php-pages I want
> to host (even though I will use lighttpd rather than apache for this),
> and would therefore need to pass them to another server in the
> background.

I don't know of any such module.  It'd be nice to have, though... :)