We run jenkins on tomcat on port 8080 but then use iptables to route port 80 to 8080. Works great. Here is one sample:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/444729/redirect-port-80-to-8080-and-make-it-work-on-local-machine On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Mark Waite <mark.earl.wa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would think that running Jenkins as the root user would be a very > risky. If one of the users inadvertently defines a Jenkins job that runs > the shell command "rm -rf /", your system will self-destruct. > > It is best to find another way, rather than running the Jenkins process as > the root user. > > Mark Waite > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 4:04 PM Martin <lingv...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hey, I was starting the service with a sudo user. So it should be fine in >> terms of privilege. >> >> >> On Friday, July 31, 2015 at 3:05:29 PM UTC-4, Thomas Fuerer wrote: >> >>> on many systems you need administrative privileges to use a port between >>> 0 to 1024. normally a apache httpd (or nynx) demon runs at this port and >>> routes to the internal 8080 port. >>> >>> tom >>> >>> Am 31.07.2015 um 20:37 schrieb Martin: >>> > Hello, I wanted to use "80" for Jenkins server. and I executed the >>> > following: >>> > >>> > $ java -jar --httpPort=80jenkins.war >>> > >>> > >>> > But It doesn't work. The website is not on. My port 80 is available. >>> > Then I have to change it back to 8080. >>> > >>> > >>> > What might cause this? Thank you. >>> > >>> > -- >>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> > Groups "Jenkins Users" group. >>> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> >> > an email to jenkinsci-use...@googlegroups.com >>> >> > <mailto:jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >>> > To view this discussion on the web visit >>> > >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/a3b89f81-11e0-4757-a3d7-b5a5cbd32b13%40googlegroups.com >>> > < >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/a3b89f81-11e0-4757-a3d7-b5a5cbd32b13%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. >>> >>> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Jenkins Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/fe82020c-f033-4e6f-a64d-3ef82b13f035%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/fe82020c-f033-4e6f-a64d-3ef82b13f035%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAO49JtEoHWY9dKp%2Bi6TsCzqz6geQn7OikhRo1%2BMkb8u%3DbfFByg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAO49JtEoHWY9dKp%2Bi6TsCzqz6geQn7OikhRo1%2BMkb8u%3DbfFByg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Jeff Vincent See my LinkedIn profile at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rjeffreyvincent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAPJK9%3DLsBTFx6FJnYVXMRiYyYRb3WYqxkFgA0yE2YW5O%3D_AOmg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
