If you are using Linux, or I assume a BSD variant, another approach is to run tomcat on port 8080 and use an IPTABLES rule to forward port 80 requests to port 8080
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i $WAN_IF --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8080 George Sexton MH Software, Inc. http://www.mhsoftware.com/ Voice: 303 438 9585 > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 3:45 PM > To: Tony Smith > Cc: struts-user > Subject: [OT] Re: running tomcat on port 80 > > > On 21/06/2005 17:44 Tony Smith wrote: > > Hi, Can I run Tomcat 5.0 on port 80? After setting 80 > > as port number in the server.xml and starting tomcat, > > I got the following error message: > > > > SEVERE: Error starting endpoint > > java.net.BindException:permission denied:80 > > > As many other posters have pointed out, only processes run as > root can > access ports below 1024. Personally, I would never run Tomcat > as root. I > use Apache/jk2 instead. It works well and is fairly easy to set up. > > HTH. > > > > > Paul Thomas > +------------------------------+------------------------------ > -------------+ > | Thomas Micro Systems Limited | Software Solutions for > Business | > | Computer Consultants | > http://www.thomas-micro-systems-ltd.co.uk | > +------------------------------+------------------------------ > -------------+ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
