use portal on port 80 - unix server

[Former Member]

Hello

I'm running EP7 NW04s SP9 on HPUX.

I would like to set the portal port to 80.

for ICM there is profile parameter EXTBIND to set to 1 so ICM could bind at port lower then 1024.

What will be the procedure for portal?

TNX!

Erez

[Ivan-Mirisola]

Hi Erez,

I have ran into this problem a while ago. It is related to the fact that normal users cannot run processes that open listening sockets on unprivileged ports (any port below 1024).

If you really need to run Portal on port 80, please consider SAP Web Dispatcher solution.

See SAP Note 538405 for more info on that.

If you find SAP Web Dispatcher is not the solution, please contact the HP support and have them configure the <SID>adm user to have the privilege to open ports lower than 1024. Modern Unix Flavors have some sort of command that you can use to give this type of permission to any user. I.E.: You can reefer to "usermod -K defaultpriv=basic,net_privaddr <user>" command on Solaris 10. The command will enable the user to start the J2EE with the required privilege to open port 80.

And please, reward points if this question has already been answered.

Best regards,

Ivan