How to run Tomcat 5.0.16 as unprivileged user

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darin dimitrov - 08 Dec 2003 00:11 GMT

I downloaded Tomcat and tried to run it with startup.sh on port 8080
as an unprivileged user but it didn't work. When I do a port scan on
my machine, the port 8080 is not open but what is interesting is that
when I open the locatin http://localhost:8080/ my browser displays the
default tomcat site. But how can I access my site from distance like
http://mycompany:8080/
I can't run Tomcat as root on some on port 80 because I don't have
root privileges on the machine :)

Moreover there is an Apache web server running on the port 80
configured to support user directories. I would like to redirect all
incoming requests from http://mycompany/~user/ to the tomcat web
server. If you know how can I do this, please help me. Thanks.

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Mihai Osian - 12 Dec 2003 12:14 GMT

Hi Darin,

I'd say you have a firewall installed, which allows you to connect on
port 8080 from localhost, but not from the exterior. To access
http://mycompany:8080 from ext. you need to ask your sysadmin to open
that port for you.
About Apache, you also need the sysadmin's help. First, you have to
load the "jk" or jk2" module into Apache, then configure it to redirect
requests to port 8080 or whatever, where an AJP connector of Tomcat must
be listening. Read the docs on jakarta.tomcat.org, section "JK" or
"Connectors". I don't think you can do it as a regular user.

Hope this helps,
Mihai

>I downloaded Tomcat and tried to run it with startup.sh on port 8080
>as an unprivileged user but it didn't work. When I do a port scan on
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>incoming requests from http://mycompany/~user/ to the tomcat web
>server. If you know how can I do this, please help me. Thanks.

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