Why does Tomcat work with port 8080 but not 80?

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Dominik picture Dominik · May 4, 2012 · Viewed 40.4k times · Source

I have started and tested Tomcat under Port 8080 (default). Now I altered the connector port to 80 and restarted Tomcat, nothing will show on my minimal Debian 6.0 installation. Now where is the trick here?

<Connector port="80" protocol="HTTP/1.1" 
           connectionTimeout="20000" 
           URIEncoding="UTF-8"
           redirectPort="8443" />

Answer

Dominik picture Dominik · May 4, 2012

go to /etc/default/tomcat6 and change #AUTHBIND=no to AUTHBIND=yes

 # If you run Tomcat on port numbers that are all higher than 1023, then you
 # do not need authbind.  It is used for binding Tomcat to lower port numbers.
 # NOTE: authbind works only with IPv4.  Do not enable it when using IPv6.
 # (yes/no, default: no)
 #AUTHBIND=no

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