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Changing the default port numbers

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The config-substitutions.properties file lets you specify a totally new set of ports and define an automatic port offset for when you run multiple servers (or instances of the same server).

Other than that, you can define different variables and their substitution values in this file, which will be used when processing the corresponding config.xml. These substitution values can be overridden by environment variables and system properties by prefixing the property name with org.apache.geronimo.config.substitution.

For example, an entry such as hostName=localhost can be overridden by an environment variable or system property org.apache.geronimo.config.substitution.hostName=foo.

Although this section is focusing on changing these settings by updating a properties file, there is an alternative way by using the Geronimo administrative console which is explained in more detail under the Configuring the Web Container section. However, if you have port conflicts at start up time the Geronimo administrative console will not be available, so we have to focus on configuring the config-substitutions.properties file by choosing a new PortOffset value (the default is 0).

The following example shows the config-substitutions.properties file for the Tomcat distribution of Geronimo. The file provided with the Jetty distribution is nearly identical. Changes to the file should be made when the server is stopped.

config-substitutions.propertiessolid #Tue Dec 16 15:44:41 EST 2008 ORBPort=6882 AJPPort=8009 clusterNodeName=NODE MaxThreadPoolSize=500 ResourceBindingsNamePattern= Capacity=1000 SMTPHost=localhost StatelessPoolSize=10 StatelessTimeout=0 ResourceBindingsQuery=?\#org.apache.geronimo.naming.ResourceSource DerbyPort=1527 BMPPoolSize=10 COSNamingPort=1050 StatefulTimeout=20 webcontainer=TomcatWebContainer OpenEJBPort=4201 ORBSSLPort=2001 PortOffset=0 ORBHost=localhost JMXPort=9999 EndPointURI=http\://localhost\:8080 NamingPort=1099 DefaultWadiSweepInterval=36000 WebConnectorConTimeout=20000 BulkPassivate=100 MulticastDiscoveryPort=6142 HTTPSPort=8443 COSNamingHost=localhost MinThreadPoolSize=200 MulticastDiscoveryAddress=239.255.3.2 ReplicaCount=2 ServerHostname=0.0.0.0 ActiveMQPort=61616 ORBSSLHost=localhost SMTPPort=25 webcontainerName=tomcat6 ResourceBindingsNameInNamespace=jca\: StrictPooling=true JMXSecurePort=9998 DefaultWadiNumPartitions=24 AccessTimeout=30 HTTPPort=8080 clusterName=CLUSTER_NAME ClusterName=cluster1 ResourceBindingsFormat={groupId}/{artifactId}/{j2eeType}/{name} RemoteDeployHostname=localhost TmId=71,84,77,73,68

There are a number of reasons why you might want to use other port numbers than those provided by default. Most common startup problems are in fact associated with port conflicts. You can use monitoring utilities like Active Ports that will quickly tell you what application or process is using what port so you can customize Geronimo's ports accordingly. On Unix-like platforms, you can always use something like netstat -nao | grep -i list to get the ports in use along with what application is holding that port. Alternatively, you can use netstat -nab on a Windows platform.