There's no "handicap" under Windows - you can run a server on port 80 with no problem, even if it's running under a user account.
On the other hand, for a demo site it's not such a big deal to use a different port. Just makes the URL look a little uglier. -- Len On 7/26/07, Craig Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 01:37:03PM -0400, Len Popp wrote: > > Yes, you can run Tomcat on port 80. Some OS's (Linux, UNIX) require > > the process to have root privs to use port 80. > > Why not run it on 8080 as the _tomcat user, and use the packet filter to > redirect the incoming port 80 traffic to port 8080? > > If you are handicapped by using windos, your broadband router may be able > to do port forwarding from its external interface, port 80, to your > "server:8080" > > See: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tomcat/chapter/ch06.pdf > > Also covers security manager and some nice OpenBSD security tips that > can be cludged on Linux. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
