Re: Run TomCat on port 80?
Dundonald wrote On 10/22/07 17:25,:
On Oct 22, 9:56 pm, Owen Jacobson <angrybald...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Oct 22, 1:46 pm, Dundonald <mark.dun...@gmail.com> wrote:
How can I get TomCat to run on port 80? I'm not interested in having
apache serve static content, I just want Tomcat to serve everything.
So I'm not too interested in mod_jk to hook Apache up with tomcat.
Thanks
Since Java provides no mechanism for altering the OS user the JVM is
running as, running Tomcat on port 80 involves allowing Tomcat to run
as root. Apache gets around this by binding to 80 as root and then
dropping to a non-privileged account based on the contents of
httpd.conf.
Running Tomcat as root should give you pause, at the very least.
Yes it does if it means having to run as root. But that sucks! :(
If you're running Solaris 10, you can use a non-root
account by granting it the PRIV_NET_PRIVADDR privilege.
This allows processes running under that account to bind
low-numbered ports without allowing them to do other
rootly things. "man -s5 privileges" (if applicable).
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Eric.Sosman@sun.com