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

Question

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

Answer 1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, in Amazon EC2. The following steps resolved this issue for me:

1. Edit server.xml and change port="8080" to "80"

sudo vi /var/lib/tomcat7/conf/server.xml

2. Edit tomcat7 file (if the file is not created then you need to create it)

sudo vi /etc/default/tomcat7

uncomment and change #AUTHBIND=no to yes

3. Install authbind

sudo apt-get install authbind

4. Run the following commands to provide tomcat7 read+execute on port 80.

sudo touch /etc/authbind/byport/80
sudo chmod 500 /etc/authbind/byport/80
sudo chown tomcat7 /etc/authbind/byport/80

5. Restart tomcat:

sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat7 restart