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## node-on-ec2-port-80.md

      
        
          
            
              
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                How I Got Node.js Talking on EC2's Port 80 
              
          
        
      
        
  
      
    The Problem

Standard practices say no non-root process gets to talk to the Internet on a port less than 1024.  How, then, could I get Node talking on port 80 on EC2?  (I wanted it to go as fast as possible and use the smallest possible share of my teeny tiny little micro-instance's resources, so proxying through nginx or Apache seemed suboptimal.)
The temptingly easy but ultimately wrong solution:

Alter the port the script talks to from 8000 to 80:
}).listen(80);