The Process must run as root,  If you can see it on yours , you 
should be able to see it from others. If I start the whole tomcat 
process as another user it can start on any port over 1024.
    Do you use localhost to see the servlet on your machiine ?  Can you 
use the ip address to view it ?

Lauren Commons wrote:

>I also got Tomcat to listen on port 80 by changing the
>port number in Server.xml.  My problem is I can only
>browse from the local (server) machine.  If I point my
>browser on another machine on the same network to the
>server's ip address I get no response (I think that
>was what happened; I can't test it now to recall
>exactly what happens...)
>
>I'm guessing this is a unix thing, but am not sure.
>I'm running on Redhat 7.2
>
>--- adrianthiele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>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:
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>>>But apache server can manage to bind to port 80
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>>with another user.
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>>>What I am asking is why tomcat can not do this. Is
>>>      
>>>
>>it becasue it is written
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>>>in Java?
>>>
>>>TA.
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Renato Romano
>>>      
>>>
>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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>>>Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 3:30 PM
>>>To: 'Tomcat Users List'
>>>Subject: RE: port 80 !!??
>>>
>>>
>>>That's because on Unix-like systems well-known port
>>>      
>>>
>>numbers, like www
>>    
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>>>(port 80), or ftp, telnet etc, are system-reserved
>>>      
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>>to the root user. No
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>>>other user can open server sockets on ports less
>>>      
>>>
>>than 1024. You should
>>    
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>>>run it as root, or have another user having system
>>>      
>>>
>>administrator
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>>>prvileges.
>>>Renato
>>>
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Tevfik Aytekin
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>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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>>>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
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>>
>>>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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