(newbie q) Connector vs running standalone Tomcat as root

2004-05-06 Thread Barnet Wagman
I'd like to hear people's opinions on the best way to have Tomcat accessible via standard ports (80 and 443). As I understand it, under Linux (and other unixes), ports 1000 must be run as root. I've also read that there are some difficulties running Tomcat as root. I gather that the

Re: (newbie q) Connector vs running standalone Tomcat as root

2004-05-06 Thread Parsons Technical Services
that is an upper case S or it will be ignored. Good luck and watch for typos. Doug www.parsonstechnical.com - Original Message - From: Barnet Wagman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 4:45 PM Subject: (newbie q) Connector vs running standalone

Re: (newbie q) Connector vs running standalone Tomcat as root

2004-05-06 Thread QM
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 03:45:13PM -0500, Barnet Wagman wrote: : As I understand it, under Linux (and other unixes), ports 1000 must be : run as root. Yes and no. The port must be *bound* by root, at which point the process may switch to another user to perform the real work. : I gather

Re: (newbie q) Connector vs running standalone Tomcat as root

2004-05-06 Thread Diego Algorta Casamayou
The easier way is just leave tomcat listening on 8080 and add a port redirection rule using netfilter. - You just have to redirect incoming conections on port 80 to port 8080. - Add proxyPort=80 on the Connector tag in server.xml. Voila! You're done. Bytes DAC Barnet Wagman escribió: I'd like