[Red5devs] Socket policy server error

[Daniel Rossi]

On 07/05/2008, at 6:29 AM, Thijs Triemstra | Collab wrote:

> Getting this error when trying to start Red5, latest trunk:
>
> [ERROR] [main] org.red5.server.net.policy.SocketPolicyHandler -  
> Exception initializing socket policy server
> java.net.SocketException: Permission denied
> 	at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Native Method)
> 	at  
> sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketChannelImpl.bind(ServerSocketChannelImpl.java: 
> 119)
> 	at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketAdaptor.bind(ServerSocketAdaptor.java:59)
> 	at  
> org 
> .apache 
> .mina 
> .transport.socket.nio.SocketAcceptor.registerNew(SocketAcceptor.java: 
> 363)
> 	at org.apache.mina.transport.socket.nio.SocketAcceptor.access 
> $800(SocketAcceptor.java:55)
> 	at org.apache.mina.transport.socket.nio.SocketAcceptor 
> $Worker.run(SocketAcceptor.java:222)
> 	at  
> org 
> .apache 
> .mina.util.NamePreservingRunnable.run(NamePreservingRunnable.java:51)
> 	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
>
> I guess this means red5 now has to be started as root because it  
> wants to use port 843? Is it possible to configure this port  
> somewhere?
>

Yeh this is what happens when launching from eclipse. With the default  
port it needs to be launched as root. Or changed in red5.properties.