I want to move to
Tomcat 5 right now, but can't yet, and for the time being we need to move from Tomcat 4.1.23 on Windows to 4.1.31 on Red Hat, so I'm now facing a question of what to do about the port Tomcat runs on. I've read stuff online that suggests it's best to leave it at 8080 since 80 is a privileged port on *nix.
But from that point, I'm not sure what the best practice would be, though I've read different options, like user space port forwarding, kernal space port forwarding, or using using a port forwarder (portfwd or redir4a), none of which I'm familiar with. What do you Tomcat users suggest would be a good approach for someone who's only a beginner/intermediate with Linux and using standalone Tomcat? In case it matters, note that we are also moving from our single Windows web server to 2 Linux web servers (each running standalone Tomcat), and we're trying to configure a load balancer hardware appliance in front of the two web servers.
Thanks for your suggestions,
Stephen