WLS 7 - need separate port for console

Question

Hi,
I can't find way to configure this for the life of me. Hopefully
someone can point me to some docs and page numbers...
I want to configure the WLS 7 server to host my web applications on
port 80, but I want the administration console hosted on a
different port (say 7001).
How do I do this??

Answer 1

Wayne W. Scott wrote:
David Orriss, Jr. wrote:
Hi,
I can't find way to configure this for the life of me. Hopefully someone can point
me to some docs and page numbers...
I want to configure the WLS 7 server to host my web applications on port 80, but I
want the administration console hosted on a different port (say 7001).
How do I do this??
Use the console. The default port for the admin console is 7001.
Try going to support.bea.com and in the box next to the "Ask" button,
enter "weblogic server 7.0 console port configuration". Several hits
will lead to
relevant parts of the documentation.
http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs70/ConsoleHelp/servers.html#1116254
I'll check other sources.
Wayne Scott
Port 80 is quite special. I was about to caution you about using it,
but wanted to get some details first.
/wws
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http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=3db72aac%40newsgroups.bea.com
It complains because on Unix-es only priv user (root) can listen on ports <1000.
You can start it as 'root' and configure WLS to change uid/gid to a non-priv
user after binding to port 80 (using console it is in Unix Machine configuration).
"mucucu" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> Our Weblogic 6.1 SP3 on HP-UX 11 works fine on port 7001.
>
> In the console, we changed the port to port 80 and shut it down. When we tried
> to restart WLS, it refused to start complaining that port 80 was already used
> by another process. This is what the log said :
>
> ===================================
> ..
> <Oct 23, 2002 1:51:31 PM EDT> <Emergency> <WebLogicServer> <Unable to create a
> server socket for port: 80. java.net.BindException: Permission denied Perhaps
> another process is using port 80.>
> <Oct 23, 2002 1:51:31 PM EDT> <Emergency> <WebLogicServer> <The WebLogic Server
> is no longer listening for connections. You should probably restart it.>
> <Oct 23, 2002 1:51:31 PM EDT> <Alert> <WebLogicServer> <Server shutdown has been
> requested by system>
> <Oct 23, 2002 1:51:31 PM EDT> <Alert> <WebLogicServer> <The shutdown sequence
> has been initiated.>
> ..
> ====================================
>
> Port 80 is not used by any process on the box where WLS is (no web server).
>
> First question is : How to start WLS on port 80 ?
>
> Second question : If it is not possible to start WLS on port 80 for whatever
> reason, how do we go back to the default 7001 ? (We can not do it from the console
> because WLS refuses to start in the first place. So, is there a way to manually
> change the port in one of the properties or config file, and what file is it ?)
>
Dimitri