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
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
Web browsers expect and assume the port number of a web server to be 80 if
it's not specified in the URL. So just configure Tomcat to work at port 80
or to work with Apache at port 80 using mod_jk or mod_webapp. The docs and
config files that come with Tomcat should be able to help you
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,
