How to get Jetty to listen on port 80 on RedHat?

[buckman1]

Hi all,

I am trying to figure out how to use the built-in Jboss/Jetty (3.0.6) to listen to port 80 instead of 8080, but only for external IP access? We keep the port 8080 for the jmx-console for our internal wan/vpn access, but port 80 for public access to the web site. I went in to the /server/deploy/jbossweb.sar/META-INF/jboss-service.xml file and changed it. I thought that was the location to do it. Is there somewhere else I specify to use Jetty on port 80 (as well as 8080)?

Thanks.

[jonlee]

If you are running JBoss as anything other than root, then you will not be able to bind to any port under 1024 - for security reasons. You should not run JBoss as a privileged account anyway.

Refer to this document for some details about achieving what you want. Most of it applies, although it is directed at Tomcat. The only thing you don't need to worry about is proxyPort as the URL rewriting issue does not seem to apply to Jetty. The document uses the approach of iptables for port remapping. This should get you a start for remapping and you can refer to the iptables documentation for more details.

http://www.pteradactyl.tzo.com/documents/main.jsp;category,Browse;selection,6;source,list

Hope it helps.