Geoserver Setup – How to Run Geoserver on Port 80

Question

I have geoserver installation that is accessable on both, port 80 and port 8080.

Now, I try to install another instance of geoserver on a different server.

I can access it on port 8080, but not on port 80. I could not find out where to flip the switch to make it run on port 80 as well.

How do I do that?

Answer 1

Ciao Ferenjito, I would not expose both port 8080 and 80 and above all I would not make Tomcat work on port 80.

My best suggestion is to have something like apache httpd in front of tomcat and have the two talk to each via AJP leaving port 80 in the hands of httpd. Basic/startup docs here.

Hope that helps.