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While testing deployment on a VPS that defaults to the root account (this is not how you should deploy a live server ever but still), ran into this. We should handle this more gracefully.

Output follows:

root@my-demo:~# web-server site 

 💖 Indie Web Server v6.0.2

/bin/sh: 1: sudo: not found

 Error: could not get privileges for Node.js to bind to port 443. { Error: Command failed: sudo setcap 'cap_net_bind_service=+ep' $(which node)
/bin/sh: 1: sudo: not found

    at checkExecSyncError (child_process.js:616:11)
    at Object.execSync (child_process.js:653:13)
    at WebServer._ensureWeCanBindToPort (/usr/lib/node_modules/@ind.ie/web-server/index.js:185:24)
    at WebServer.serve (/usr/lib/node_modules/@ind.ie/web-server/index.js:84:10)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/@ind.ie/web-server/bin/web-server.js:61:11)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:701:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:712:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:600:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:539:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:531:3)
    at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:754:12)
    at startup (internal/bootstrap/node.js:283:19)
    at bootstrapNodeJSCore (internal/bootstrap/node.js:622:3)
  status: 127,
  signal: null,
  output:
   [ null,
     <Buffer >,
     <Buffer 2f 62 69 6e 2f 73 68 3a 20 31 3a 20 73 75 64 6f 3a 20 6e 6f 74 20 66 6f 75 6e 64 0a> ],
  pid: 3441,
  stdout: <Buffer >,
  stderr:
   <Buffer 2f 62 69 6e 2f 73 68 3a 20 31 3a 20 73 75 64 6f 3a 20 6e 6f 74 20 66 6f 75 6e 64 0a> }
/usr/lib/node_modules/@ind.ie/web-server/index.js:192
          throw error
          ^

Error: Command failed: sudo setcap 'cap_net_bind_service=+ep' $(which node)
/bin/sh: 1: sudo: not found

    at checkExecSyncError (child_process.js:616:11)
    at Object.execSync (child_process.js:653:13)
    at WebServer._ensureWeCanBindToPort (/usr/lib/node_modules/@ind.ie/web-server/index.js:185:24)
    at WebServer.serve (/usr/lib/node_modules/@ind.ie/web-server/index.js:84:10)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/@ind.ie/web-server/bin/web-server.js:61:11)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:701:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:712:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:600:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:539:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:531:3)
    at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:754:12)
    at startup (internal/bootstrap/node.js:283:19)
    at bootstrapNodeJSCore (internal/bootstrap/node.js:622:3)