How to change the port of Tomcat from 8080 to 80?

tomcat tomcat6

Lokesh Sah · Jan 21, 2011 · Viewed 362k times · Source

I want to execute my web app as http://localhost.

Answer

1) Go to conf folder in tomcat installation directory

 e.g. C:\Tomcat 6.0\conf\

2) Edit following tag in server.xml file

<Connector connectionTimeout="20000" port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" redirectPort="8443"/>

3) Change the port=8080 value to port=80

4) Save file.

5) Stop your Tomcat and restart it.