On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Peter Crowther wrote: > > From: Jury Levykin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I use tomcat 5.5 as main web server at Linux host. Me need > > run tomcat in port 80. > > > > To solve this task I see two way: > > 1. Running tomcat as daemon in port 80 by jsvc command. > > 2. Running apache in port 80 and use mod_jk to redirect users > > request to tomcat. > > > > What way is most secure? > > 3. Use port forwarding to forward port 80 to port 8080 :-). No root > access needed at runtime, merely a one-off at configuration time.
The downside here is that you don't need root access to start Tomcat - someone with an account on the machine who can force Tomcat to shutdown, can then start another process listening on port 8080 which will then be the webserver. This may or may not be a problem of course. Pete Stevens -- Pete Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/ If it's hard to do, it's not worth doing. -- Homer Simpson --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
