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Muhammad Altabba
Muhammad Altabba

Reputation: 2726

Angular CLI Error: Port 80 is already in use. Use '--port' to specify a different port

When trying to build the Angular application and starts a web server using the command (os: Ubuntu):

ng serve --port 80

The following error shown:

Port 80 is already in use. Use '--port' to specify a different port.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2251

Answers (1)

Muhammad Altabba
Muhammad Altabba

Reputation: 2726

The error message is misleading. Actually, ports below 1048 needs root privileges.

On Linux (like Ubuntu), one of the ways to be able to use port 80, is to use sudo as follows:

sudo ng serve --port 80

Upvotes: 6

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