NodeJS HTTP - listen on other port than 80

Question

I am running XAMPP on Windows to host an Apache server on port 80. Now I\'m trying to have a NodeJS script running in the background but the problem is that it can only list

Answer 1

I haven't really understood what you meant by you're not getting any response, because I ran the same code and it works fine for me.

I only noticed something here (I kept a note for you in the comment)

server = http.createServer( function(req, res) {
    if (req.method == 'POST') {
        var body = '';
        req.on('data', function (data) {
            body += data;
            doStuff(body); //you haven't defined doStuff so you will end up with a error message on this line, but you sever will still run fine
        });
        res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text'});
        res.end('received request successfully'); 
    }
    else {
        res.writeHead(405, {'Content-Type': 'text'});
        res.end('not allowed method ' + req.method + ', try again with GET or POST');
    }

})

When running your post request, don't forget to add "" in your body area, select raw then choose JSON(application/json). That should run fine for you, except you might get a reference error as shown below, but you should still get your response of received request successfully.

error

            doStuff(body);
            ^

ReferenceError: doStuff is not defined

Ensure that you're doing the same thing and let us know if your issue it resolved.