Indeed the topic of this discussion is not to have 8080 as the main port of Tomcat. I've just emitted one solution among many others: mod_jk. Some of my customers have opted for this one because of the simplicity of writing url, of performance (load-balancing), of security too (No-using 80 port for Tomcat was a security directive in some cases)
> Message du 01/04/09 15:47 > De : "Caldarale, Charles R" > A : "Tomcat Users List" > Copie à : > Objet : RE: redirection > > > From: mateo-jl [mailto:mateo...@orange.fr] > > Subject: re: redirection > > > > i think, the best way is to use the mod_jk module. So, in a firewall > > environment, you can have your web server (Apache) in the non-protected > > area and apache will redirect all requests (http:// ....:80 or nothing) > > at your Tomcat server (http:// ....:8080) within the protected one. > > In what way would that improve security? Since all requests would be > forwarded to Tomcat, adding httpd accomplishes nothing except additional > overhead and complexity. It's silly to place *anything* in a completely > unprotected area; you would still have a firewall in place restricting access > to just ports 80 and 443, even if httpd were handling those ports. Might as > well have Tomcat handle those ports directly. > > - Chuck > > > THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY > MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received > this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its > attachments from all computers. > >
