Bad idea to change Tomcat ports to 8181?

[alexandra]

On our test machine we already had a Tomcat app running on port 8080. I thought I could make the Alfresco Tomcat bundle use port 8181 instead so I changed that in the server.xml file.

Will that break a lot things? I found a few references in file-servers.xml related to the Desktop actions which I also changed port number in because they were written as statics links.

Any comments would be very helpful…

[steve]

Hi,

You should be able to change the ports that a second instance of Tomcat uses without causing any problems.
You will need to change all the ports in the server.xml file to ensure there is no conflict with the 2 tomcat instances.
You may also have to change some of the ports specified in Alfresco config files - such as FTP port for the second server…

Hope this helps,

Steve

[rschultz]

Is there a white paper or HOWTO which clarifies all the changes that need to be made?  This would be a GREAT help!

Thanks!
Randy

[steve]

Hi,

The information on how to configure multiple instances of Tomcat is contained within the Tomcat documentation.

In your Tomcat directory, read the file called 'RUNNING.txt'

Hope this helps,

Steve

[anon26949]

You could see my answer here, for example. Hope this helps.

Kind regards,

Aleksey Bykov

[douglascrp]

Adding to your answer, the following blog posts provide lots of useful information on the topic:

Where and how to change any Alfresco related port – : : blyx.com : : Blog : : Toni de la Fuente : : 

- Change Alfresco ports in Alfresco 5 - zylk 

[anon26949]

Hi, Douglas C. R. Paes!

Great comment! I forgot about "solrcore.properties" and get some trouble today)

Kind regards,

Aleksey Bykov