Why does Tomcat work with port 8080 but not 80?

Question

I have started and tested Tomcat under Port 8080 (default). Now I altered the connector port to 80 and restarted Tomcat, nothing will show on my minimal Debian 6.0 installa

Answer 1

Did you start Tomcat on port 80 as root? You have to be root to bind to ports <= 1024 in Linux.