tomcat5 on port 80

stig · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 9:59 pm Post subject: tomcat5 on port 80

I've just re-installed one of my boxes, and now I'm having a bit of trouble getting Tomcat to run at port 80.
Changing the '8080' to '80' in /etc/tomcat5/server.xml results in 'connection refused' when connecting, thus the port is not opened.
I recon it has something to do with the startupscript, and that Tomcat is running as a regular user?
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Voltago · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 10:07 pm Post subject:

What do tomcat's logfiles tell you? Btw, port 80 can only be opened by processes with root privileges. Which user is running tomcat?

stig · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 10:18 pm Post subject:

catalina.out states (not unexpectedly)

Voltago · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 10:21 pm Post subject:

Ok, your options are:
1) Forward all traffic from port 80 to 8080 with iptables
2) Use root to run tomcat or give tomcat root permissions (*cough*badidea*cough*)

grapeman · n00b Joined: 11 Oct 2004 Posts: 10

Unless you run Tomcat as root, you cannot run tomcat on port 80.. most people don't recommend.. so that's ur first option

the other option is to use either iptables or shorewall(much easier) and rout port 80 over to port 8080, that's what I do and it works great
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stig · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 10:27 pm Post subject:

Thanks for your quick responses, I'll get hacking on iptables at once!
Am I totally not near at all with this?