Apache:Tomcat

[taneujin]

Not sure am I in the wrong forum or not.

I installed Tomcat recently by untarring the file to /tomcat
I made it run on port 80 and I changed the permissions and owner to tomcat. When I logged in as tomcat, I was not able to run tomcat server. It says permission denied:unable to bind to port 80.

Is there something wrong with my congiuration or is it that port 80 is not supposed to be run by anyone except root?

 

[RhythmAce]

Port 80 is being used by apache - is that what you want to do?

 

[taneujin]

No, I have already disabled apache and nothing is running on port 80. I have already configured tomcat to run on port 80 and is running ok with when run as root. But I am not able to run it under tomcat user.

 

[sghosh83]

Hello,

You, as a normal user, cannot run any service which listens on any port in the rangebetween 0 and 1023. These ports are reserved ports and can e utilized by only administrator.
The solution will be to run Tomcat at port above 1023.
I hope it helps.

Soumen Ghosh

 

[carpeliam]

If you want Tomcat accessible to people on the default web port, you can use one of the Jakarta Connectors like WARP (mod_webapp) or AJP (mod_jk) to connect Tomcat to Apache. You can find more info on

http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.0-doc/config/index.html

(you should see a section on connectors on the left). Liam Morley
lmorley@gdc.wpi.edu
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