Tomcat: redirecting traffic from port 8080 to 80 using iptables

First verify that Tomcat is running on port 8080. Run the following command

# netstat -ntl

The output will look something like

Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address               Foreign Address             State
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:25                0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22                  0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN
tcp        0      0 ::ffff:127.0.0.1:8005       :::*                        LISTEN
tcp        0      0 :::8009                     :::*                        LISTEN
tcp        0      0 :::8080                     :::*                        LISTEN
tcp        0      0 :::22                       :::*                        LISTEN

Run the following command to redirect port 80 traffic to port 8080

# iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8080

Run the folloing command to verify that redirect is working fine

# iptables -t nat -L

The output will look something like

Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination
REDIRECT   tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:http redir ports 8080

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

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