Web Development on Port 80 and 443 in Vagrant | Doug's Home On The Web

In this post I'm going to talk about using port 80 and 443 for web development on a Mac running 1 or more virtual machines under Vagrant. Why use port 80 and port 443? Port 80 is the standard port for HTTP and 443 is the standard port for HTTPS. While other ports can be used, they're non-standard, and some (if not most) webapps make assumptions about those port numbers. You can really get burned o