You could also use ipchains or similar to foward requests on port 80 to some other port i.e. 8080 to avoid running tomcat as root. -Pete >Alex, > >port 80 is the default port for http, so what you are wanting to do is >have tomcat listen on port 80 instead of 8080. to do this on a *nix box >you'd need to run tomcat as root (for 3.x anyway - I believe 4.0 has a >wrapper that does this properly), which isn't a good idea. alternatively, >if you are using apache as well, then you need to configure mod_jk. > >a good place to start is the docs in the distribution - have a look at >mod_jk, or edit server.xml and change 8080 to 80. > >cheesr >dim > >On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, alex reuter wrote: > >>Hello List, >>I'd like to access my servlets without using the port number, and I've seen >>a whole bunch of config files and directives and I was wondering if anyone >>could tell me exactly how its done, or point me to some solid documentation. >> >>Oh, and if the answer to this question is staring me in the face, please >>feel free to ridicule me. >> >>Thanks, >>Alex >> >>
