Trying to use port 80

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Hey, using SonarQube Community edition 8.6.1.40680. I have sonarqube running as a service so my devs can access it from a link I have in dns. I would like to change the default port from port 9000 to port 80. I went into sonar.prop to do just that. When I try to then run sonarqube again, it starts and then stops.

Web logs say this:

2021.03.03 16:09:19 INFO web[o.s.p.ProcessEntryPoint] Starting web
2021.03.03 16:09:20 ERROR web[o.s.s.a.EmbeddedTomcat] Fail to start web server
org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to initialize connector [Connector[HTTP/1.1-80]]
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.initInternal(StandardService.java:559)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:136)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.initInternal(StandardServer.java:848)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:136)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:173)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Tomcat.start(Tomcat.java:440)
at org.sonar.server.app.EmbeddedTomcat.start(EmbeddedTomcat.java:66)
at org.sonar.server.app.WebServer.start(WebServer.java:52)
at org.sonar.process.ProcessEntryPoint.launch(ProcessEntryPoint.java:97)
at org.sonar.process.ProcessEntryPoint.launch(ProcessEntryPoint.java:81)
at org.sonar.server.app.WebServer.main(WebServer.java:99)
2021.03.03 16:09:20 WARN web[o.s.p.ProcessEntryPoint] Fail to start web
java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to initialize connector [Connector[HTTP/1.1-80]]
at com.google.common.base.Throwables.propagate(Throwables.java:241)
at org.sonar.server.app.EmbeddedTomcat.start(EmbeddedTomcat.java:70)
at org.sonar.server.app.WebServer.start(WebServer.java:52)
at org.sonar.process.ProcessEntryPoint.launch(ProcessEntryPoint.java:97)
at org.sonar.process.ProcessEntryPoint.launch(ProcessEntryPoint.java:81)
at org.sonar.server.app.WebServer.main(WebServer.java:99)
Caused by: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to initialize connector [Connector[HTTP/1.1-80]]
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.initInternal(StandardService.java:559)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:136)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.initInternal(StandardServer.java:848)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:136)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:173)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Tomcat.start(Tomcat.java:440)
at org.sonar.server.app.EmbeddedTomcat.start(EmbeddedTomcat.java:66)
… 4 common frames omitted
2021.03.03 16:09:20 INFO web[o.s.p.ProcessEntryPoint] Hard stopping process

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Hi @apiazza ,

there are a few possibilities why sonarqube is failing to use port 80. the most common are:

  • the port is already in use
  • sonarqube does not have the permission to allocate this privileged port

if you want to use port 80, you can try to use a reverse proxy as stated in our docs here

hope that helps