Change the Apache Tomcat default port number on Windows Server

How to change the default port number of Apache Tomcat on Windows Server

To change the Apache tomcat default port 8080 to some other port number , we need to edit the server.xml file located in the tomcat program directory
1. Go to Start-> Programs -> Apache Tomcat x.x-> Tomcat x.x Program Directory

change the Tomcat default port number

This will open the Tomcat Program directory.

2. Edit the server.xml file located inside /conf folder of Tomcat program directory.

Change the default port 8080 to 80 or some other port in the following line.

connector classname=”org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteConnector”
port=”8080″               minProcessors=”5″ maxProcessors=”75″

change the Apache Tomcat default port number on Windows Server

3. Save the file and reboot tomcat

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