Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:05:16 -0800 From: "pete wright" <nomadlogic@gmail.com> To: "Lucas Neves Martins" <snowniak@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firewall Redirect Message-ID: <57d710000711300905s71a6c638mad7546ff3416e932@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49eaeb190711300559u34557d6bha38a72d84a65caca@mail.gmail.com> References: <49eaeb190711300559u34557d6bha38a72d84a65caca@mail.gmail.com>
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On Nov 30, 2007 5:59 AM, Lucas Neves Martins <snowniak@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello guys, > > I=B4m having the following problem: > > Redirect requests from the port 80, to the port 8082. - for apache tomcat= . > > I=B4m new on freeBSD, Of course, I had looked out on google, and read the > firewall section on the Handbook. > snipping some ipfw rules... > > PS: I=B4m trying to do this, to make the user "tomcat" run the apache-tom= cat, > opening the port 8082, and make it > > transparent to users who access the domain by the common port 80. > another method to achieve this that may be interesting for you is to use mod_jk to redirect requests coming in on your priv'd port 80 apache daemon to your tomcat processes on an unpriv'd port: http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/ I won't go into the whole configuration here - but going this route may give you more flexibility than using a packetfilter ruleset and will allow you take advantage of load balancing etc. with mod_jk as well. i currently use this setup for a site that serves both static content from httpd and .jsp pages from tomcat all on the same box. HTH -pete --=20 ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group
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