Atlassian recommends, for many good reasons, to run Confluence behind a web server such as IIS or Apache. They supply examples of how to setup various connectors, such as AJP, jarkata, and mod_proxy.

However, users could still go around the front end webserver at http://www.foo.com to get to the standalone installation of Confluence by requesting pages from Port 8080, as in http://www.foo.com:8080.

It would be nice to disallow that at the machine, instead of relying on a front end firewall to block the access.

That is, it would be nice to edit conf/server.xml so that the connector only worked on port 8080 of a certain address, like 127.0.0.1

• Answer: Add address="127.0.0.1" to conf/server.xml connector.
• - Source: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-4.1-doc/config/coyote.html

References

• Confluence wiki: Using Apache with Mod_proxy