How to change Port of Apache ACE?

Question

I want to change the port of Apache ACE to 80. How can I do that? I could not find any documentation for that. I have tried by changing value of key Dorg.osgi.service.http.port in file platform.properties from 8080 to 80. But after this, i am not able to login in Apache ace. It gives invalid username & password message. However, i am able to login through same credentials if i run it on port 8080.

Answer 1

In current release (1.0.0) you can achieve what you were initially trying by removing following lines from laucher.properties that resides inside server(-allinone).jar

org.apache.ace.server.port=8080
org.osgi.service.http.port=8080

Answer 2

The properties in following files needs to be updated for port change.

1. platform.properties

    -Dorg.osgi.service.http.port
   

2. conf/org.apache.ace.webui.vaadin.cfg

      aceHost
      obrUrl
   

3. conf/org.apache.ace.server.activation.impl.cfg

      hostName
      obrUrl
   

4. conf/org.apache.ace.discovery.property.cfg

      serverURL
   

5. conf/org.apache.ace.deployment.provider.repositorybased.cfg

      url
   

6. conf/org.apache.ace.configurator.useradmin.task.UpdateUserAdminTask.cfg

      repositoryLocation
   

7. conf/org.apache.ace.client.automation.cfg

      hostName
   

8. conf/org.apache.ace.activation.matcher.cfg

      repositoryURL
   

Answer 3

With Ace 1.0, we used command line properties to change the port (to 8083 in our case):

java -Dorg.apache.ace.server.port=8083 -Dorg.osgi.service.http.port=8083 -jar server-allinone.jar

This did not work any more with Ace 2.0.1, ie we could change the port but authentication would not work. I identified the properties to be changed in launcher.properties but set them on the command line instead of changing launcher.properties. This keeps from having to recreate the jar. The command line I use is:

java -Dorg.apache.ace.server=localhost:8083 -Dorg.osgi.service.http.port=8083 -Dorg.apache.ace.obr=localhost:8083 -jar server-allinone.jar

Answer 4

With 1.0.0 I was not able to pass in parameters via -D (which were commented out previously). What worked for me was setting port numbers in server-allinone.jar/launcher.properties.