The reason that this is recommende is that you otherwise have to include the pot in every link.
The reason why it doesn't work for you, is that ports below 1024 are restricted to users that have administrative right on the system. To use this ports you can do one of the following: - Run tomcat as administrator (If you feel comfortable with that) - Run tomcat behind IIS/Apache - Use a port mapping tool (Don't know if there is a well known for windows, I'm using mainly linux) > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 12:04 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: HTTP and SSL Connector port problems > > > Is there any particular good reason to change HTTP port from > 8080 to 80 > and the SSL connector port from 8443 to 443? > They causing problems for me. Some people are suggesting that > we should change the ports. > But how come after I made the changes, Tomcat just refused to > start? I am on the Win2000 platform. > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
