Disabling HTTP ports in Tomcat services (2024)

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Disabling HTTP ports in Tomcat services? ›

To restrict HTTP methods, such as OPTIONS, add a <security-constraints> element inside <tomcat>/conf/web. xml. Below is an example where the methods OPTIONS and DELETE are disabled. The tag <auth-constraint/> in the example means that no role can access the specified methods and the methods are completely disallowed.

To restrict HTTP methods, such as OPTIONS, add a <security-constraints> element inside <tomcat>/conf/web. xml. Below is an example where the methods OPTIONS and DELETE are disabled. The tag <auth-constraint/> in the example means that no role can access the specified methods and the methods are completely disallowed.

Steps to disable HTTP methods in Apache:

Navigate to the <Directory> block that corresponds to your website's document root or the location where you want to apply restrictions. Add the LimitExcept directive within the <Directory> block to specify the allowed HTTP methods.

For tomcat, just by changing the entries in the server. xml file under /conf directory we will be able to change the port number used by tomcat. In this case, to remove the port number from the URL string, change the port number to 80 and this should also eliminate the need for http:// as well.

How do I disable HTTP track in Apache? ›

Simply add the TraceEnable directive into your httpd. conf and set the value to Off.

xml files (WEB-INF/web. xml and CATALINA_HOME/conf/web. xml), at the end you may see security-constraint with <web-resource-name>HTTPSOnly</web-resource-name> or <transport-guarantee>CONFIDENTIAL</transport-guarantee> . Edit the HTTPSOnly to HTTPSOrHTTP and the CONFIDENTIAL to NONE .

This method causes the web server to include a copy of the received request in the response, so one can see exactly what was received by the server. The request that reaches the server might contain more information than the one sent by the client.

For instance, to check whether port 8080 is open, you would type “lsof -i :8080” in the terminal. This will show you a list of all the processes using port 8080.