How to change the Rundeck web interface port from 4440 to 80?

[Mark Macdonald]

I'm trying to use Rundeck on Ubuntu 14.04.

How do I change the web interface port from 4440 (default) to 80?

The port number seems to be referred to in various config locations (including /etc/rundeck/profile and /etc/rundeck/framework.properties) but changing these had no effect for me and I can't find a specific section in the documentation on changing the web port.

[Caleb Call]

Why not just leave it on 4440 and put a proxy (http, nginx, etc) in front of it?

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[Alex Honor]

Port 80 is a privileged port which means root access. I suggest using a proxy or using port translation as an alternative to changing to a privileged port.

[Mark Macdonald]

That could work. But why such a complication solution? It would still be helpful to have instructions on how to change the port via rundeck configuration.

(ports 80,8080, 8081 are the only ones not blocked by a firewall on my network).

[Mark Macdonald]

Thanks. It would still be helpful to have instructions on how to change the port via rundeck configuration.

(ports 80,8080, 8081 are the only ones not blocked by a firewall on my network).

[new23d]

Binding to port 80 on service startup is indeed a privileged operation only root can perform. Otherwise look at how Apache does it (non-Java), or look into CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE . Easiest it to redirect with iptables...

iptables -A PREROUTING -d <your-ip>/32 -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination <your-ip>:4440

The REDIRECT target may also be used, and the destination with <your-ip>/mask may be skipped altogether. Well, depends on how many interfaces you may have configured and how much of a catch-all you'd expect this rule to be. You will have to look at Ubuntu's documentation to persist this on reboots.

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