Specifying Tomcat ports in Linux environments with OM Web Viewer 12.1

Products

• Output Management Web Viewer

Issue/Introduction

The customer wants to move Output Management Web Viewer from Windows hosts to Red Hat Linux hosts. The  issue occurs where Apache Tomcat® can't use ports 80 & 443 as they are reserved for processes running as root.

Environment

• Output Management Web Viewer 12.1
• Microsoft Windows Server
• Red Hat Linux
• Apache Tomcat®

Cause

Usage of ports below 1024 in Linux environments.

Resolution

Any ports above 1024 can used for Apache Tomcat® in Linux environment by changing the connectors in the file server.xml under the conf directory. Ports below 1024 aren't recommended as they are privileged ports.