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

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

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

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.

On Ubuntu and Debian systems, there are several steps needed:

  1. In server.xml, change the line <Connector connectionTimeout="20000" port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" redirectPort="8443"/> to have port="80".
  2. Install the recommended (not required) authbind package, with a command like:

    sudo apt-get install authbind

  3. Enable authbind in the server.xml file (in either /etc/tomcat6 or /etc/tomcat7) by uncommenting and setting the line like:

    AUTHBIND=yes

All three steps are needed.