Running JBoss on AIX on port 80

[mroosendaal]

Hi,

we want to run JBoss (version ) on AIX on port 80 and NOT on port 8080. The JBoss server is not run under 'root' so binding to port 80 is not possible.

We know Weblogic has the enableSetUid/SetGid method. Weblogic starts as root, binds to port 80 and moves to a regular account. Does JBoss has such an option?

Or is there another preferred way to do this?

JBoss 3.2.6
AIX 5.3-2

Thanks,
Maarten

[peterj]

See http://www.jboss.org/community/docs/DOC-10686

[mroosendaal]

Hi,

Thanks, the option with Apache is too expensive at this moment in terms of development and maintenance.

Also, AIX does not have iptables so we are looking for another way to do this.

Any other suggestions or is there no other way than suggested in the documentation (to which the url refers)?

Thanks,
Maarten

[peterj]

Isn't there some way, other than iptables, to do port forwarding in AIX?

I know that there are some AIX users out there, perhaps one of them might offer some help?