web server as a non root user

I searched on google about this but couldnt find much. I need开发者_高级运维 to setup a server on a non root user account ,so that people can access it and store information on this. Can you tell me how can I do this?

I thought of installing LAMP as a non root user . will this do ?

Thanks, Vinay

Simply choose a port greater than 1023 and you can be any user. Only root can open a port between 1 and 1023, and the "normal" port for web access is 80.