Re: Can not change Tomcat4 to listen to :80

[Arnaud Vandyck <arnaud.vandyck@ulg.ac.be>]

Stefan Gybas <gybas@trustsec.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:10:26PM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
> 
> > Catalina.start: LifecycleException: null.open:
> > java.net.BindException: Permission denied:80
> 
> You need  to run Tomcat as  root to be  able to bind to  ports lower
> than  1024. However,  I don't  recommend running  a Java  program as
> root,  even with  a security  manager.  You  could instead  use port
> redirection (using ipchains or iptables) to map port 80 to 8180.

Thank you,  I'll try ipchains, but  I didn't know apache  was set root
(thought www-data). 

-- Arnaud
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