He's running JBoss... Java apps won't drop privs. Non-root can't bind to 80,
so he gets JBoss to bind to 8080 then redirects.
PK
On 2012-10-05, at 12:01 PM, "Tim" <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:
Tim:
>> Why are you redirecting, though? If there's a block on port 80, then
>> your attempt to get in on port 80 and redirect to port 8080 isn't
>> going work. Which way are you *trying* to redirect?
>
Mark Space
> Just that I understand it's good practice to never run apps as root.
> If I listen on port 8080 instead of 80, I never have to run the server
> as root.
Redirecting the port isn't going to change who's running the service,
that's configured elsewhere. And, for what it's worth, Apache doesn't
run as root, it runs as Apache.
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