confluence update question

[Hsu Yao Chang]

Dear all, 

We would like to update confluence from version 4.2.1 to version 5.8, but we found our default port is 80 for confluence used. When we updated confluence , we found we needed to change default port to another port 8090 by modified server.xml file as listed as below: How can we keep default port 80 to new confluence version used ? Thank you.

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[Chander Inguva · Accepted solution]

To check what process is running on port 80 try these commands

netstat -tulpn|grep 80     for linux

netstat -a -n -o |find 80   for windows

Regards

Chander Inguva

[Hsu Yao Chang]

Thank you for your kindly reply.

We found we can not use port range between 0-1024 port when we use root account . How can we modify the setting ? Thank you.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

That's not right - Linux generally stops you from using ports below 1024 when you are *not* root. Your best option is usually to put a proxy web-server in front of JIRA, as you certainly do not want to run the service as root, and the tricks to get it to run on a port below 1024 when not a root user are, well, not pretty.

[Chander Inguva]

Yup. good point Nic.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

You need to work out what else is already running on port 80, stop that, and change the port for Confluence back to 80 in the server.xml