on your pi or your linux installation, you should probably have something called iptables
sometimes you don’t want to run say, nodejs, as root. but you can’t make it listen to ports lower than 1024 without being root.
in that case just redirect all traffic on port 80 to something like 8080. then run your node app to listen to port 8080 and you are good to go!
[pastacode lang=”bash” message=”” highlight=”” provider=”manual”]
iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 8080 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8080[/pastacode]