Mochiweb Port 80
beepbeep, ejabberd, erlang, mochiweb
Solution
running any service as root has risk. It's hard to answer your question properly without more information though. Is this a production service or a dev instance you are running?
If production I would recommend running the mochiweb instance on a different port so it can run as a user and then using a proxy like nginx or apache to listen on 80 and forward the request.
Problem
I am attempting to run BeepBeep through Mochiweb on Port 80. It works if I type sudo ./start_server.sh. Are there any security risks with running Mochiweb like this? If so how to remedy? Thanks!