-none- 2007-08-15 - By Stephen Caine
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Matthew,
Thank you for your response. Apart from using iptables (which may or
may not work in OS X), the Tomcat setup link, "http://
tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6 (See http://cat-6.ora-code.com).0-doc/setup.html", seems to be the best
way to go.
>
> the only way to get rid of the port number is to have something
> listening on :443 (that's the way browsers are, sorry), and then
> hand requests over to tomcat, so to get what you want something
> will have to bind to :443 at some point, requiring root privs. What
> you want is something that will bind to the port as a privileged
> user and subsequently drop priv's to a limited user. the Apache web
> server is excellent for this kind of thing.
>
> The easiest way to do this would be with apache sitting in front of
> tomcat with either mod_jk2 or forwarding requests with mod_rewrite.
> It doesn't really matter where the port forwarder sits, but usually
> you want to align with existing IT infrastructure and use an
> existing internal/internet web server to redirect requests to your
> app. If your company already has apache then this is a cinch,
> otherwise you'll have to figure out how to reverse-proxy with the
> web server du jour...
>
> Is this close to what you're after?
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