Nginx : Cannot listen on port 80 ... only port 8080 works on OSX 10.11 -

osx 10.11 installed latest nginx 1.9.9 (from source , compiled ) configuration file /usr/local/conf/nginx.conf syntax ok

when listening on port 8080 no problem can request http://example.local:8080

server {     listen       8080;     server_name  example.local;     root html;   sudo lsof -i -p | grep -i "80"  nginx     8254           root   10u  ipv4 0x643a3abbad7bf485      0t0     tcp *:8080 (listen)  nginx     8392           yves   10u  ipv4 0x643a3abbad7bf485      0t0    tcp *:8080 (listen) 

but when change port 80, cannot reach http://example.local:80

================================================ server { listen 80; server_name example.local; root html;

sudo nginx -s reload nginx     8254           root   10u  ipv4 0x643a3abbad7bf485      0t0    tcp *:8080 (listen) nginx     8254           root   18u  ipv4 0x643a3abbadbb9485      0t0    tcp *:80 (listen) nginx     8430           yves   10u  ipv4 0x643a3abbad7bf485      0t0    tcp *:8080 (listen) nginx     8430           yves   18u  ipv4 0x643a3abbadbb9485      0t0    tcp *:80 (listen) 

safari canot open page can still request http://example.local:8080

very weird .... nginx listening on 80 ... can ?

you can run services on ports below 1024 sudo.

running on go:

$ sudo brew services restart nginx 

starting system:

$ sudo cp /usr/local/opt/nginx/*.plist /library/launchdaemons $ sudo launchctl load -w /library/launchdaemons/homebrew.mxcl.nginx.plist 

note must set server listen 80 inside config file , make sure there's no other process running @ port 80.