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Tomcat server: can't configure port 80 and multiple domain names

I’m trying to configure 80 port and several domain names for my server.

After reading some questions and answers I edited my server.xml file like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">
  <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener" />
 
  <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener" SSLEngine="on" />
 
  <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener" />
  <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener" />
  <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.ThreadLocalLeakPreventionListener" />

  
  <GlobalNamingResources>
    
    <Resource name="UserDatabase" auth="Container"
              type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase"
              description="User database that can be updated and saved"
              factory="org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory"
              pathname="conf/tomcat-users.xml" />
  </GlobalNamingResources>

  
  <Service name="Catalina">

    
    <Connector **port="80"** protocol="HTTP/1.1"
               connectionTimeout="20000"
               redirectPort="8443" />
   
    <Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8443" />

    <Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost">

      
      <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.LockOutRealm">
       
        <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm"
               resourceName="UserDatabase"/>
      </Realm>

      <Host name="localhost"  appBase="webapps"
            unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">

      
        <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="logs"
               prefix="localhost_access_log" suffix=".txt"
               pattern="%h %l %u %t &quot;%r&quot; %s %b" />

      </Host>
      
      **<Host name="codingrecords.tk"  appBase="webapps"
            unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">
        
         <Alias>www.codingrecords.tk</Alias>
            
      
        <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="logs"
               prefix="localhost_access_log" suffix=".txt"
               pattern="%h %l %u %t &quot;%r&quot; %s %b" />
               
               
       <Context path="" docBase="/opt/tomcat/webapps/Test"
    debug="0" reloadable="true"/>

      </Host>**
      
      
    </Engine>
  </Service>
</Server>

Namely, I changed the port in <Connector> and added an extra <Host> block. However now not only can’t I access the file by IP, IP:80, IP:8080, I also can’t access it using codingrecords.tk domain name. The domain name has two A records that point to my droplet’s IP address.

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InverseWolf • October 28, 2018
Accepted Answer

I figured it out with the help of stackoverflow. The problem was that the port was never truly changed from 8080 to 80. It happened because although I was connected as a root user to the VPS, the tomcat automatically switched to non-root user tomcat, because of /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service file:

[Unit]
Description=Apache Tomcat Web Application Container
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking

Environment=JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-amd64/jre
Environment=CATALINA_PID=/opt/tomcat/temp/tomcat.pid
Environment=CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat
Environment=CATALINA_BASE=/opt/tomcat
Environment='CATALINA_OPTS=-Xms512M -Xmx1024M -server -XX:+UseParallelGC'
Environment='JAVA_OPTS=-Djava.awt.headless=true -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom'

ExecStart=/opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh
ExecStop=/opt/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh

User=tomcat
Group=tomcat
UMask=0007
RestartSec=10
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

So I changed a User=tomcat to User=root, restarted everything and now it works fine!

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