Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to Another nsopenssl problem

Unless the server is started as the root user, no ports numbered below 1025 can be used.

Either start the server as root, or modify your configuration file to have the server listen on 8443 instead of 443 (or any other number above 1024).

For instance, instead of

set httpsport              443

use

set httpsport              8443

This should fix the problem you are seeing - take heart, it's almost working!