The easier way is just leave tomcat listening on 8080 and add a port
redirection rule using netfilter.

- You just have to redirect incoming conections on port 80 to port 8080.
- Add proxyPort="80" on the Connector tag in server.xml.

Voila!
You're done.

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Barnet Wagman escribi?

> I'd like to hear people's opinions on the best way to have Tomcat
> accessible via standard ports (80 and 443).
>
> As I understand it, under Linux (and other unixes), ports < 1000 must
> be run as root. I've also read that there are some difficulties
> running Tomcat as root. I gather that the alternative is to run
> Tomcat via a connector from Apache.
>
> I have no particular need to run Apache - nearly everything on the
> site I'm putting together requires Tomcat. Is running Tomcat as a
> root process really impossible and/or problematic (under Linux)? Are
> there any other downsides to running Tomcat as a standalone server?
>
> Thanks
>
> bw
>
>
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