Comments on: How to do port redirection with Debian (and doing so, securing Tomcat)

By: Nathan Zadoks

Nathan Zadoks — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:24:53 +0000

@Joe Quinn
Iptables is a Linux thing – other unixes may offer something alike though.
Although chances are you aren’t running UNIX, but a modern commercial unix offering or BSD.

By: yamabushitriste

yamabushitriste — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:18:18 +0000

It works great, but in /etc/ipmasq/rules/F00chain.rul i had to modify the string:

#: $IPTABLES -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp –dport 80 -j REDIRECT –to-port 8080

with

iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp –dport 80 -j REDIRECT –to-port 8080

:-)

Anyway thanks a lot, simple and working.

By: Luigi

Luigi — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:44:22 +0000

Thanks for the news William. Google rocks!

By: William

William — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:33:44 +0000

Thank you so much for posting this. This made everything a lot easier. BTW, this page is the top Google result for ‘debian tomcat port 80′

By: Luigi

Luigi — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:20:19 +0000

it depends on which distribution you are using.

on debian it should be:
# apt-get install iptables

check it out: Debian Package Managing Survival Guide.

Otherwise you can download iptables source and install it from the sources as usual:
./config make make install

By: Joe Quinn

Joe Quinn — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:01:05 +0000

Hi,

I would like to use iptables to do a port forward on unix. Iptables isnt already installed on my unix machine. Using searches all i seem to be able to find are install instructions for linux. Where can i find install instructions for iptables for unix?

Cheers,
Joe.