starting tomcat on port 80 on CentOS release 5.5 (Final)

Question

I want to start Tomcat 6.0.29 on port 80. My OS is CentOS release 5.5 (Final) I changed following line in $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml

Answer 1

Run Apache in front of Tomcat and connect all requests on Port 80 (Apache) to Tomcat on the AJP port (8009) using mod_rewrite.

yum install httpd
chkconfig httpd on
vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/proxy.conf

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ ajp://localhost:8009/$1 [P,QSA,L]

service httpd start

You're done.