Re: Can not change Tomcat4 to listen to :80

[Eric Molitor <eric@brainfood.com>]

> > 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
> http://vbstefi60.fapse.ulg.ac.be/

Instead of port redirection you might also want to look at the khttpd kernel 
module. Speeds up serving of static assets and is quite easy to use.

Cheers,
   Eric