RE: Setting Tomcat for the Internet

[Joel Cochran <jrc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 18:23, Joe Pluta wrote:
> The biggest problem in your case is that typically requests come in on
> port 80, not port 8080.  You will either have to use
> http://www.domain.net:8080 to access your machine, or you will have to
> set up Tomcat to listen on port 80 rather than 8080.  I personally don't
> know of any routers that do port mapping as well, though someone more
> versed in this subject could certainly help.  And my guess is they are
> likely to reside on WEB400-L (or perhaps even MIDRANGE-L).
> 
> Joe

Unless you are trying to protect your server from random access, I would
recommend port 80.  And be aware that changing the port is only security
by obscurity.  If you do need protection, look into .htaccess or
"AuthUserFile/Require valid-user" (Apache Configuration).

I'm guessing though that the reason you have 8080 is because that is the
default Tomcat install, I'm sure for testing purposes.  And yes, this
should probably be shifted to Web400-L.

Joel
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