Tomcat7 bind to port 80 fails in Ubuntu 14.04LTS

Question

I\'ve got a problem with my tomcat7 installation on a newly updated Ubuntu system. Ever since the update to 14.04 LTS, tomcat refuses to start on port 80 with an error that I ca

Answer 1

Following works:

apt-get install authbind

First, set AUTHBIND=yes in /etc/default/tomcat7 file

sudo touch /etc/authbind/byport/80
sudo chmod 500 /etc/authbind/byport/80
sudo chown tomcat7 /etc/authbind/byport/80

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