Ho, just to be sure: never ever launch Tomcat with root privileges. Right? :-)
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:39 AM, Zala Pierre GOUPIL <goupilpie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good evening, > > If you use Tomcat alone (without Apache or any other web servers), you'll > have to find a way to have it listen on the port 80 (there a some of them > available on the web). > > Because Tomcat uses the port 8080 by default. In such a situation, you > can't remove the port number: no port number in the address bar means port > 80! And as you use MacOS X, which is a Unix derivative, you can't just > modify Tomcat's server.xml and ask it to use the port 80: on Unix, port > numbers < 1024 are reserved and a program needs the root privileges to bind > to them. > > One more thing: any Tomcat distribution is able to set up a virtual host, > so you should definitively use the plain-vanilla Tomcat available > officially. > > Regards, > > Pierre > > > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 12:22 AM, Micky Hulse <mickyhu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks for tips Hassan! I really appreciate it! >> >> I'll follow your suggestions and take another stab at it. I'll post back >> here with my results. >> >> > On Feb 1, 2015, at 2:46 PM, Hassan Schroeder < >> hassan.schroe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Why? Download the real thing, untar, done. No questions about >> > packaging issues. Who knows what this thing does? >> >> Good point! >> >> Silly question: Will the real thing allow me to setup a vhost like in >> Apache2? >> >> > OK, is your problem with httpd or Tomcat? >> > Is httpd responding to your request for 'http://tomcat.local/'? >> >> I was able to get tomcat.local to work, but not without the port. >> >> > If so, then why aren't you proxying everything to Tomcat? You don't >> > need to proxy every app individually, and you're not proxying ROOT >> > at all. Your gists and your stated goals seem at cross purposes... >> >> Sorry about that. I copied where I left off. I had tried many variations >> of the code you see (with and without app specified). Anyway, I apologize >> for the confusion I created. >> >> I'll be back! >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >> >> > > > -- > Si le sang ne coule pas assez chaud dans tes veines, je le répandrai sur > le sable pour qu'il bouille au soleil. > -- Si le sang ne coule pas assez chaud dans tes veines, je le répandrai sur le sable pour qu'il bouille au soleil.
