How to hide port number in web.py?

Question

In web.py we need to host the our application py using $ python xyz.py 8080 command, also by default it takes 8080 itself. While accessing from the browser one has to put the port number in the url like this, www.xyz.com:8080. How can I remove the port number and give the url like www.xyz.com to host my application.

Answer 1

web.py default server is intended only for development. In production you should set up a dedicated web server, like Apache or lighttpd, and run it (the server) on port 80, so your question is not related to Python as @Álvaro pointed out. There are three documented ways to deploy web.py over Apache: CGI deployment, mod_wsgi deployment (Red Hat example, Ubuntu example) and FastCGI.

Answer 2

For a regular, unencrypted HTTP connection, your browser by default uses port 80, so

http://www.xyz.com

is the same as

http://www.xyz.com:80

But to use port numbers below 1024 you need administrator permissions.