Bug#549181: tomcat6: binds to port 8080, this conflicts with other packages on the system

[Michael Koch]

On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 03:19:19PM +0200, Folkert van Heusden wrote:
> > > Package: tomcat6
> > > Version: 6.0.20-5
> > > Severity: normal
> > > Tomcat6 wants to bind to port 8080. This, in my case, conflicts with other installed software. Solution would be making the tomcat6 bind-port configurable. Preferably with bind to networkcard as well.
> > With which software does it conflict? Is it a Debian packaged software?
> 
> It is Squid. Debian binds it to 3128 or so but 8080 is a more standard
> port for proxies so we decided to bind it to that one.

Ah, okay. 3128 is indeed the stanard port for web proxies. I would call 8080
non-standard for this. I close the bug because of this for now as the problem
is home-brewn and does not exist in default Debian-packages.
> 
> > Generelly this is a problem. We need to document this in a better way.
> 
> You mean there's a workaround? Can it be configured somewhere somehow?

You can configure this in /etc/tomcat6/server.xml. Just replace 8080 by
something you like and restart tomcat.


Cheers,
Michael