Macos – OSX, Failed to listen on 0.0.0.0:80 (reason: Permission denied)

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I'm on OSX Mavericks. I installed PHP 5.5 from http://php-osx.liip.ch/. When I go to localhost in a browser I get a page that says, "It Works!" which is not a page I created so I am not sure where it is located. Is this from the PHP install or just Apache?

When I open my IDE (PHPStorm) and run the website, it works if I use a port like 8080. If I set the port to 80, it fails and the IDE says:

/usr/local/php5/bin/php -S 0.0.0.0:80 -t /mywebsitepath/ 

Failed to listen on 0.0.0.0:80 (reason: Permission denied)

When I searched for that specific error, all I found was help for NGINX, but I am using Apache. What do I need to change to be able to run my code locally on port 80?

I want to do this so I can use localhost instead of localhost:8080.

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Ports below 1024 are privileged, and cannot be bound to by anyone other than root. Since you can't run your IDE as root, I would set up an Nginx proxy going from port 80 to port 8080, should be easy to do, there are many tutorials =D

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You have to use sudo to bind any port below 1024, privileged ports. i will try to sum up all. first disable internal apache by adding disabled to file /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist

       <key>Disabled</key>
       <true/>

then copy nginx's plist file to /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.nginx.plist

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<string>homebrew.mxcl.nginx</string>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
<key>KeepAlive</key>
<false/>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
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<key>WorkingDirectory</key>
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Also you can see what is wrong while playing launchctl with syslog -w command.

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