What operating system are you running? With Linux I use iptables to redirect port 443 to 8443 and run JBoss as a non-privileged user. This involves setting up iptables for destination NAT.

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I generally run some varient of RedHat Fedora, but it's still using iptables. I don't like the way iptables is setup on RedHat, so I generally replace the RC script at /etc/init.d/iptables with my own script/firewall rules.

You'll need to load the "iptable_nat" kernel module to get the Network Address Translation. Then the forwarding rules look something like this (where "$IPADDR" is your IP address):

## Port forwarding 80 to 8080
iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT --destination localhost -p tcp --dport 80 \
 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8080
iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT --destination $IPADDR -p tcp --dport 80 \
 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8080
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING --destination $IPADDR -p tcp --dport 80 \
 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8080

## Port forwarding 443 to 8443
iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT --destination localhost -p tcp --dport 443 \
 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8443
iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT --destination $IPADDR -p tcp --dport 443 \
 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8443
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING --destination $IPADDR -p tcp --dport 443 \
 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8443