Hello, I have Tomcat 9.0.21 installed (binary distribution) on an Ubuntu 16.04 server. My Java version is OpenJDK 11.0.4. I have the JSVC built and run the dameon.sh script to start and stop Tomcat via a systemd script. Everything works great, but now I need to run it on port 80 & 443. On our old server we have a script we use, but it doesn’t work upon startup (due to the needing to use sudo to get privileges to bind to port 80). For this new build, I was hoping to streamline the process and have Tomcat start upon boot. I’ve been doing a lot of Google searching on binding port 80 on Tomcat, but most of what I found was for older versions. Here’s what I found:
* Use iptables to redirect 8080 to 80 * Proxy with NGINX or Apache * Use authbind I’d rather not use iptables to redirect as (from what I understand) you still have to allow direct access to port 8080. I tried using authbind, but I could not get it to work. All the procedures I found were for older versions of Tomcat, so I don’t know if authbind will even work with Tomcat 9. Finally my questions- 1. Has anyone successfully used authbind with Tomcat 9? 2. Anything I’m missing with getting Tomcat to bind with port 80? Should I just bite the bullet and use an HTTP proxy? Thank you! Ralph Ralph Arbelo Library IT Services - River Campus Libraries University of Rochester 121B Rush Rhees Library, Rochester, NY 14627 o: 585.275.3449 - f: 585.275.1032
