Protect Your Ports with a Reverse Proxy

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Dec 24, 2013 6:32 AM
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In a previous article, I discussed Apache Tomcat, which is the ideal way to run Java applications from your server. I explained that you can run those apps from Tomcat's default 8080 port, or you can configure Tomcat to use port 80. But, what if you want to run a traditional Web server and host Java apps on port 80? The answer is to run a reverse proxy.

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