Before You Begin
When you create a network listener, you can simultaneously create a protocol that the network listener will use, or use a protocol that you create first. Typically, there is a one-to-one relationship between a network listener and its associated protocol, but this is not required.
The Network Listeners page opens.
The New Network Listener page opens.
A network listener name cannot begin with a number.
The default name of the protocol is the name of the network listener with -protocol appended, but you can edit this value.
If you select this option, you would typically have created the protocol for this listener beforehand.
You can specify the protocol only when you create the network listener. You cannot change the associated protocol later.
This option is enabled by default. If the listener is disabled, any attempts to connect to the listener result in a socket exception (java.net.ConnectException).
In GlassFish Server versions prior to 9.1, a listener whose enabled attribute was set to false returned a 404 response code for any requests sent to it. To achieve this behavior in the current GlassFish Server version, set the listener's status to enabled, and set every associated virtual server's state to OFF. A virtual server lists its associated listeners in its Network Listeners drop-down list.
This option is disabled by default.
The mod-jk protocol is a proprietary communication/network protocol between Apache's httpd (web server) and an GlassFish Server back-end instance. If the listener supports this protocol, httpd is supposed to handle all static content, whereas any requests for dynamic resources (i.e., Servlets and JSPs) are routed to the mod-jk enabled network listener of the GlassFish Server, using the mod-jk protocol. This option is disabled by default.
Legal values are 1 through 65535. On a UNIX system, creating sockets that listen on ports 1 through 1024 requires superuser privileges.
The address can be in dotted-pair or IPv6 notation. It can be any (for INADDR_ANY) to listen on all IP addresses. It can be a hostname.
Normally, you select one of the two thread pools that are configured when you install the GlassFish Server.
By default, the only choice is tcp.
Next Steps
If you enabled security for the network listener, you can use the SSL tab to edit the SSL settings of the protocol used by the network listener.
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