Right, and that was my initial approach, but it seemed to have the
effect of blocking traffic to port 80.

As I've said, I'm not seeing it as a real problem, but rather just
letting people know that it is an ugliness associated with this (NAT)
approach.

On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 12:26 -0400, Mark Diggory wrote:
> On Apr 7, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Mark H. Wood wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 12:07:44PM -0400, Cory Snavely wrote:
> >> For folks listening in with interest, we also use NAT port  
> >> forwarding to
> >> get around the requirement for mod_jk, but FWIW I haven't  
> >> determined a
> >> way to close the incoming *actual* Tomcat ports (8080/8443).
> >
> > Just don't open them.  In [tomcat]conf/server.xml comment out the
> > Connector with 'port="8080"' and leave commented the one with
> > 'port="8443"'.  You should then only be running AJP 1.3 on 8009 and
> > the shutdown port on localhost:8005.  If you want to limit AJP to the
> > local host, you can add 'address="127.0.0.1"' to the AJP Connector.
> >
> > -- 
> > Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he
> > means the exact opposite.
> 
> MarkW,
> 
> This would only be the case if they were using mod_jk/Apache. but,  
> they are trying to use NAT/port forwarding and this means those  
> Tomcat ports are what are getting forwarded to. I'd say the quickest  
> solution is to just block those ports from external requests in the  
> NAT/firewall configuration.
> 
> -Mark Diggory
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Mark R. Diggory - DSpace Systems Manager
> MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> 
> 
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