I have installed Apache tomcat on my Droplet and deployed my application. It is available on port 8080. How can I make it available on port 80? Thank you!
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Heya,
To make your Tomcat application available on port 80, you have several options:
server.xml
file which is located in theconf
directory of your Tomcat installation:<Connector
and hasport="8080"
. Change8080
to80
:This method involves setting up another web server in front of Tomcat to handle incoming requests on port 80 and then forward them to Tomcat on port 8080.
This approach has the added benefit of allowing you to easily set up SSL/TLS encryption, load balance between multiple Tomcat instances, or serve static assets directly from the reverse proxy for better performance.
Hi there,
You should be able to do that by following these steps
server.xml
configuration file, the locaiton of the file might depend on the way that you’ve installed Tomcat, but popular locations are at/opt/tomcat/conf/
or/etc/tomcatVERSION
<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
line, and change the port from8080
to80
Let me know how it goes!
Best,
Bobby
Hello @sergeigerman,
To change default port number, edit the main Connector element in the
server.xml
file. Find XML tag that looks something like this:Just change the port attribute from 8080 to 80, and restart Tomcat. Unless that port number is already in use or you lack administrative permission to start a server on port 80, Tomcat should now be operational on port 80.
Let me know how it goes,
Sergio Turpín