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Re: Help please wish port 8080 being reutilized as port 80

From: Tom Mueller <tom.mueller_at_oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:23:06 -0600

If you are running on a Unix system, are you running as root?
Root privilege is required to bind to port 80.
Tom


On 1/12/2011 2:00 PM, Smith, Michele A wrote:
>
> Dear Users:
>
> I have Glassfish installed as 2.1.1 bundled with Netbeans ver 6.7.1.
>
> My application ran fine until I changed the domain.xml file to utilize
> port 80 instead of 8080.
>
> Now that I changed the port from 80 to 8080, Glassfish will not start
> on 4848, the administrative console.
>
> Do I need to uninstall and reinstall Glassfish?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Michele Smith
>