Something I've always wondered about, but never figured out, is how does apache run as 'apache user' or 'nobody' and work on a port below 1024, but Tomcat can't? Anyone got a simple explanation?
On 10/10/11 9:53 PM, "Mark Thomas" <ma...@apache.org> wrote: >On 10/10/2011 09:56, Léa Massiot wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Thank you for reading my post. Here is my question: >> >> - Presently, to access my WebApp first page, I have to type in the >>following >> URL in a browser: >> http://hostname-or-ip:8080/my-webapp/ >> - Instead, I wish I could type in a URL such as: >> http://my-webapp/ >> Is it possible? >> How? >> >> And by the way, I don't know what's the name of such an operation. I >>used >> the expression "URL simplification"... >> >> Thank you for pointing me in the right direction! > >There are three parts to this. > >1. Removing /my-webapp/ from the end of the URL > - Deploy your web application as the ROOT web application > Read the docs or search the list archives for the various > ways of doing this. > >2. Removing the port (8080) from the URL > - Configure your HTTP connector to use port 80 rather than 8080 > Port 80 is privileged so you'll need to run as root (bad) or use > a service wrapper (such as jsvc from Commons Daemon) that binds to > port 80 as root and then drops privileges > - Use iptables (or equivalent) to map port 8080 to 80 > >3. Replace hostname-or-ip with my-webapp > - This will require a DNS entry that resolves my-webapp to the IP > address of the machine where Tomcat is running. This is probably > already set up for the machines host name. If you don't want to use > that, you can: > - edit the hosts file on the client (fine for testing) > - talk to your network administrator about adding an appropriate > DNS entry > >Mark > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
