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AWS EC2 Connection refused for http port 80 for tomcat server

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I had installed tomcat 8 port 80 on Amazon AWS EC2, but netstat, fuser does show me tomcat on port 80. Browser gives 404 error and connection refused. I wrote to Amazon support for the misery...

posted Mar 6, 2018 by Priya Ranjan Kumar

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Often if you are running Tomcat on port 80, you are proxying through a web server (Apache, nginx, etc.). It may be that your webserver failed, so crosscheck...
The issue was that in order to run Tomcat on a port below 1024 in Ubuntu/Unix, the service needs root privileges which is generally not recommended as running a process on port 80 with root privileges is an unnecessary security risk.

Solution is to use a port redirection via iptables :-

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8080

And it worked for me.

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