Configure Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) on port 80 / 443
Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) is a Web Server from Oracle built on top of Apache with additional modules like mod_osso, mod_ossl etc . OHS by default listen on port 7777 or 8888 (non SSL/HTTP) and 4443 (SSL/HTTPS). This post covers steps to re-configure OHS to listen on port 80 (HTTP)/443 (HTTPS)
Key things good to know
- Port on which HTTP Server listen is defined in $ORCALE_INSTANCE/config/OHS/ohs1/httpd.conf (parameter Listen)
Note: Location of httpd.conf may be different depending on OHS version (above location is for OHS 11g) - If there is load balancer listening on port 80 , forwarding request to OHS listening on port 7777 then in httpd.conf value of parameter Listen should set to 7777 and value of parameter Port should be 80
- Default HTTP port is 80 and HTTPS by default is 443 i.e. if you use https://onlineappsdba.com (http but no port at the end) then you are making request on port 80 or if you us https://onlineappsdba.com (https but no port at the end) then you are making request on port 443)
- OHS on Linux/Unix is installed and run as non Root user
- On Unix any service (including OHS) that runs on port < 1024 must be run as root user. You must re-configure OHS so that service is started as root user
Steps to configure OHS to listen on port 80/443
- If OHS is running then stop OHS as opmnctl stopall (from user that installed OHS)
- Change owner of $ORACLE_HOME/ohs/bin/.apachectl to root and change permission of this file to 6750(as user root)chown root .apachectl
chmod 6750 .apachectl
Note: .apachectl is hidden file (dot in front signifies hidden file) - Change Listen in httpd.conf to 80 and Listen in ssl.conf to 443
- Start OHS as opmnctl startall (from user that installed OHS)
Related/References
- Starting HTTP Server on Privileged Port
- [ID 457171.1] How To Change The Oracle HTTP Server Listener To Listen On Port 80?
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