From: Stefan Gybas > > 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.
Do you know how to do that with ipchains? How's the performance of Tomcat 4 standalone? Is it reasonable to run it without an apache serving static content on a low bandwidth site? - Marc
