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July 30, 2012
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ACF internal webserver running on port 80?

  • July 30, 2012
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Is it possible to change to port of the internal ACF 10 Tomcat (Coyote) webserver to port 80?

My attempts where not successful, after changing the value from 8500 to 80 ACF doesn't start anymore - and no logfile is written.

The port is not reserved.

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    Legend
    July 30, 2012
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    July 31, 2012

    Thanks Carl, I read this article but there is no hint included.

    Charlie Arehart
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    July 31, 2012

    What hint would you like? It refers exactly to how to change the port. (Thanks for the mention, Carl.)

    Now, maybe, Harry, you mean “CF does not come up when I change its internal web server port 80”. That could very well be because something else on the box is already using port 80, which is the default port for web servers like Apache and IIS. Do you mean you want hints how to detect what may be using that port? There are many, many ways to do it. It would help if you’d tell us if you’re on Windows or Linux. Similarly, if it is the other web server, you’d just want to stop it.

    But then that begs the question: why are you trying to do this (change CF’s internal web server port to be 80)? If you read the blog entry Carl pointed you to, you saw I make the case for why one might consider using the internal web server instead of an external one (since it, the Tomcat web server, is far better than the old JRun web server), but I still make the point (more than once) that I’m not saying that one SHOULD change it.

    So again, please tell us more, so that we can best help you.

    /charlie

    /Charlie (troubleshooter, carehart. org)