Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 10:05:17 +0200 From: Roberto Nunnari <nunnari@die.supsi.ch> To: Joshua Goodall <joshua@roughtrade.net>, Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tomcat on port 80 as user www:ww Message-ID: <3ED31C3D.9040105@die.supsi.ch> References: <3ED20627.6090308@die.supsi.ch> <3ED21473.9020506@bowtie.nl> <20030527042654.GB538@roughtrade.net>
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Joshua and Marc,
Thank you very much for your helpful hints. I'm now running tomcat
as user www:www on port 8180 and accessing it through port 80!
Great!
Best regards.
Joshua Goodall wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 03:19:47PM +0200, Marc van Kempen wrote:
>
>>Just run a port forwarder from 80 (ipfw can do it too) to 8080 (or
>>whereever Tomcat lives). That way you don't have to trust it at all.
>
>
> worked example: let's say Tomcat is running on 127.0.0.1:8080
> and your outside IP is 192.0.34.166, then
>
> # ipfw add fwd 127.0.0.1,8080 tcp from any to 192.0.34.166 80
>
> should do the trick. You will need
> options IPFIREWALL
> options IPFIREWALL_FORWARD
> in your kernel config.
>
> J
>
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