Browser-sync: specifying port 80 gives me port 81

[jetlej]

If I specify port 80 along with a proxy (localhost), the local URL that is spit out is localhost:81, which clearly does not resolve to the right site. Same thing happens with port 8080.

[shakyShane]

When not using BrowserSync, does your site contain links in the source code such as localhost:80 ?

[jetlej]

Nope -- when using port 80, I can just use 'localhost' without the port.

[shakyShane]

Can you show me your config, I think you're mixing up the port the BrowserSync needs to run & the port that your webserver is listening to

[shakyShane]

"specifying port 80 gives me port 81" - that's because your server is running at port 80 - BrowserSync needs an open port.

if you can normally access your website through http://localhost then the BrowerSync command should just be

browser-sync start --proxy localhost

[ioncorimenia]

Sorry for necro'ing, but since this is the top Google result: If you don't know why it's binding to 81, Skype may be the cause. Go to Extra > Settings > Advanced > Connection and disable 'Use port 80 and 443'.

[bdadieb]

same problem even skype is not running

[smrtrnx]

Hi,

I tried the solutions mentioned above but none of them worked for me. Skype is ain't using the port 80 and nothing else uses port 80 aside from xampp.

So, I was wondering why browser-sync redirects to port 81 even if I assigned port: 80 on its init. I had it working before but after formatting my pc it doesn't work anymore.

can somebody suggest a solution?

[buhoho]

I have simler probrem. and solved.
probrem the always my local mac on brwoser-sync open the 444port useing service.

Of course, the 443 port has already been released. I checked with netstat.
The cause was security software (ESET).
443 was listed in the setting to http protocol check.

[brachycera]

Landed here after a google search for: _browsersync port "80" "81"_. BrowserSync ignored the setting port: 8080 and always used port: 8081.

On osX you can check which programs uses port 8080 with:

$ lsof -i :8080 | grep LISTEN

This showed me that node was already using port 8080, so Browsersync switched to the next free port which was 8081. Silly me had a second browsersync in another iTerm Tab running.