Tevfik , I have mine running on port 80, I just grepped Server.xml and
changed the port number from 8080 to 80 no the non ssl http config. It
only needs to be changed in one spot.
I just ran apachectl stop the startup.sh and everything is fine.
Adrian
Tevfik Aytekin wrote:
>But apache server can manage to bind to port 80 with another user.
>What I am asking is why tomcat can not do this. Is it becasue it is written
>in Java?
>
>TA.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Renato Romano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 3:30 PM
>To: 'Tomcat Users List'
>Subject: RE: port 80 !!??
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>That's because on Unix-like systems well-known port numbers, like www
>(port 80), or ftp, telnet etc, are system-reserved to the root user. No
>other user can open server sockets on ports less than 1024. You should
>run it as root, or have another user having system administrator
>prvileges.
>Renato
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tevfik Aytekin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: martedė 30 aprile 2002 14.32
>To: Tomcat Users List
>Subject: port 80 !!??
>
>
>Hi,
>I suppose this question should have been answered, but I could not find
>a satisfactory answer in the archives. Isn't it possible to run tomcat
>as standalone on port 80 with a user other then root. Apache server
>manages to do this. But as far as I can see tomcat can not. I wonder
>why? Can someone answer? This ability of tomcat would have been great
>since we did not need neither apache nor mod_jk, etc. Also since apache
>and mod_jk are written in C it troubles many people to get them run on
>different platforms. So I do not understand why tomcat do not have the
>ability run on port 80 with a user other than root.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>TA.
>
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