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Problem: I want to bind a registered domain name to my web application using Apache Tomcat as a standalone web server(means NO Apache web Server, HTTPD), simple :) Environment: Windows Server (64) 2003 Apache Tomcat 6.0.18 IIS 6 Still recently what were we doing to access the web application is, we are binding domain name "xyz.com" to the IIS which is running on port 80, and then this IIS redirects the page to local instance of tomcat, which is running on port 8080, as http://localhost:8080/WebApp So when someone hits www.xyz.com the server redirects to the URL as http://xyz.com:8080/WebApp. Now we need some changes into it 1. Remove port 8080 from URL (pretty easy) Open CATLINA_HOME/conf/server.xml and search for number 8080 and replace by 80, save it and you're done. But wait, if you restarted the tomcat, it will throw exception, like ‘JVM_bind: port 80 is a...

com.mysql.jdbc.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure due to underlying exception: ** BEGIN NESTED EXCEPTION ** java.net.SocketException MESSAGE: Software caused connection abort: recv failed STACKTRACE: java.net.SocketException: Software caused connection abort: recv failed Environment: Apache Tomcat 6.0.14 with MySQL 5.2 This is the exception which was the night mare for many developers who used MySQL with Java Web application in Tomcat server. Before explaining the cause let me told you that, the exception has responsible for pulling my hair for almost 2 weeks, with little use of Googling and MySQL Forum! Particularly, the problem was, I lost my connection object when server is idle for 24 to 34 hours, so any request comes after this time interval results in above exception. Disclaimer: The below explanation is as per my understanding and as I’m not an architecture of MySQL JConnector nor Apache DBCP API, Comments & Suggestions are welcomed, See this link from wh...