Originally posted by Priyakant Charokar:
Please tell me the difference between port addersses
8080 and 80
are these lines are same
http://localhost:80/index.html
&
http://localhost:8080/index.html
Thanks in advance
The reason that some applications use 8080 (7080, 9080) instead of 80 (traditional) is that on UNIX , port numbers below 1024 are reserved for super-user processes (can only be bound to by 'root'), that's why for OS compatibility some servers which runs on several platforms:
Tomcat, WebSphere, WSAD's WebSphere
Test Environment propose to use some ports that greater than 1024, but still have "80" inside : 7080, 8080, 9080. Good news is that you can run multiple
servlets containers if they listen to different ports, for example: Tomcat on 8080 and WebSphere Express on 7080.
regards,
MZ