Tomcat ports on Linux environments

Products

• Output Management Web Viewer

Issue/Introduction

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

Environment

Release : 12.1

Component : CA OUTPUT MANAGEMENT WEB VIEWER FOR ALL PLATFORMS

Red Hat Linux

Cause

Usage of ports below 1024 in Linux environments.

Resolution

Any ports above 1024 can used for tomcat on 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.