Melanie Pfefer wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have a tomcat server running on port 8080.
>
> users need to create a dns alias which is on port 80. redirection cannot be done on DNS level of course.
>
> do you have any idea how to achieve this in tomcat. For example:
>
>
http://siroe redirects to
http://machineX:8080 that is a tomcat application?
>
Hi Melanie.
Since by now, after all these ponderous answers, you might be pretty
confused as to what to do, let me restart from the beginning.
First, you can configure Tomcat to accept requests on port 80, instead
of, or in addition to, port 8080.
That is easy, and you would do it in principle by changing in the
server.xml file, the existing <Connector ... port="8080"> to <Connector
... port="80">. That's almost it.
The only catch is that in order for this to work, this Tomcat would need
to run as user root, because only user root can run a process that opens
a listening port <= 1024.
If this Tomcat cannot run as root, then there is a workaround : you can
use something called jsvc, which is like a "wrapper" process which
starts as root, opens port 80 for Tomcat, then runs Tomcat as a non-root
user. That allows Tomcat to run as a non-root user, and to still listen
on port 80.
If none of the above is possible, then you could indeed run an Apache
httpd "in front of" your Tomcat. The Apache httpd (maybe one that is
there already), can accept requests on port 80, look at the request,
determine that it is one that Tomcat should handle, and pass it to the
back-end Tomcat on another port. This can be done in several ways :
1) the front-end Apache httpd, which listens on port 80, can just act as
a HTTP proxy, and pass the appropriate requests to the back-end Tomcat
on the Tomcat HTTP port 8080.
2) the front-end Apache can act as an AJP proxy, and pass requests to
Tomcat using the AJP protocol. This requires adding another <Connector>
to Tomcat, to listen for requests that use that protocol.
There are 2 sub-cases of this :
2a) using (at the Apache httpd level), a module called mod_proxy_ajp
2b) using (at the Apache httpd level), a module called mod_jk
(In both cases, you can choose the port Tomcat uses to listen for that)
If none of the above is possible or practical, then there are still
other solutions, using other methods in software/hardware.
Roughly, the above is in order of increasing complexity.
The issue here is not to find a solution (there are many), but to find
the solution that is the easiest and best-adapted to your problem.
Your initial post above is not very clear as to why you need this.
Tell us a bit more about your real problem and we could probably do
better at recommending an appropriate solution to you.
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