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Reputation: 5286

running a trinidad server (for Rails) under authbind?

I have a Rails app using Jruby that I would like to deploy for production. It's using Trinidad. I would like to run as port 80 without using root. Would authbind be a reasonable choice (on Ubuntu)? What's a good way to configure it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 222

Answers (1)

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O.B.

Reputation: 21

You are running Jruby, ie. using a JVM? authbind intercepts the standard socket library calls (eg. bind() in socket.h). Unfortunately, Java (at least java 1.6+ in my experience) does not use the standard socket libraries, but uses much lower level syscalls, so authbind does not work with Java.

If you want to run tomcat on port ie, either use nginx or apache as a reverse proxy, or use iptables to rewrite the "destination port" on incoming packets. More details in the tomcat FAQ: http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/HowTo#How_to_run_Tomcat_without_root_privileges.3F

Upvotes: 0

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