How to make emby run on port 80？

[AlexEisie 0]

How to make emby run on port 80？

I tried to replace 8096 with 80 in the system file. But once i do it, emby will not work anymore

[Luke 42078]

Hi, your system might be denying Emby Server privilege to bind to port 80. What OS are you on? You may have to configure the system to allow this.

[AlexEisie 0]

10 hours ago, Luke said:

Hi, your system might be denying Emby Server privilege to bind to port 80. What OS are you on? You may have to configure the system to allow this.

ubuntu 20

[Luke 42078]

@Q-Droid have you tried this?

[Q-Droid 989]

I haven't tried it though I have looked into it. There are multiple ways allow privileged port access to normal users but each has one or more catches and some would break Emby, so IMO not worth it.

For remote access the WAN ports can be different from the LAN ports, forward from the router: 80 -> emby host:port

Ubuntu has the ufw firewall that can be used to redirect ports on the host: 80 -> emby port.

And a reverse proxy running as a privileged user can also be used for this.

[Luke 42078]

@AlexEisie please let us know if this helps. Thanks.

[RobertCo 2]

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For remote access the WAN ports can be different from the LAN ports, forward from the router: 80 -> emby host:port

Hosting my Emby server on an android phone, and I was struggling to serve it over port 80. Forwarding it from the router worked like a charm, thanks a bunch :D.

[kwirky88 6]

On 12/09/2022 at 21:09, AlexEisie said:

ubuntu 20

Ubuntu only lets the super user (root) to use port 80.  You can use ufw to set up rules which will forward port 80 to another port, such as emby.  Myself, I use Traefik to reverse proxy https connections to emby server's port, complete with automated SSL certificate generation via let's encrypt.  It takes a bit of work to set up but you get a more secure system that can't be attacked by a man in the middle (port 80 isn't secure, people can read passwords plain text in flight).