gitblit GO running on privileged ports

[gitblit]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 12

Environment: OS X, JDK 6

I found this a bit surprising when firing up gitblit for the first time. It tries to
run on port 443 by default, and this will only work for the root user. 

I see this is mentioned in the FAQ. Still, it would be nice to either (a) use port
8443 on default (like tomcat does), or (b) warn the user with a friendlier error message,
that it has to either change configuration or run as root (security risk).

Here is the stacktrace from startup:

WARN  FAILED org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server@2af6a882: java.net.SocketException: Permission
denied
java.net.SocketException: Permission denied
    at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Native Method)
    at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketChannelImpl.bind(ServerSocketChannelImpl.java:126)
    at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketAdaptor.bind(ServerSocketAdaptor.java:59)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.nio.SelectChannelConnector.open(SelectChannelConnector.java:172)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractConnector.doStart(AbstractConnector.java:297)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.nio.SelectChannelConnector.doStart(SelectChannelConnector.java:250)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.ssl.SslSelectChannelConnector.doStart(SslSelectChannelConnector.java:643)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:58)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.doStart(Server.java:269)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:58)
    at com.gitblit.GitBlitServer.start(Unknown Source)
    at com.gitblit.GitBlitServer.main(Unknown Source)
    at com.gitblit.Launcher.main(Unknown Source)

Reported by tfnico on 2011-07-20 12:58:28

[gitblit]

Yeah, those both seem like reasonable suggestions.  I'm actually surprised how many
people are using gitblit on non-Windows machines with the large amount of *nix git
tooling available.

Reported by James.Moger on 2011-07-20 13:15:10

• Status changed: Accepted

[gitblit]

Reported by James.Moger on 2011-07-21 18:54:21

• Labels added: Milestone-0.5.2

[gitblit]

Reported by James.Moger on 2011-07-27 12:14:15

• Status changed: Fixed