Tomcat6 stops listening on port 80 when i change from port 8080 to port 80

trongthect · 07-26-2012, 02:23 AM

my server is running Centos 5.7. i have installed tomcat6, tomcat6-webapps, tomcat6-admin-webapps.

first, i change http port from 80 to 8081 at file: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf --> it runs with that port ok
second, change port in /etc/tomcat6/server.xml from 8080 to 80.

<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
connectionTimeout="20000"
URIEncoding="UTF-8"
redirectPort="8443" />
to
<Connector port="80" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
connectionTimeout="20000"
URIEncoding="UTF-8"
redirectPort="8443" />

after restarting tomcat6, it still runs on 8080 port instead of 80.

please help me. Thank you.

Sydney · 07-27-2012, 05:41 PM

Sounds like you may want to kill tomcat's process. It may not have shutdown properly.

The command below may catch the process for you:

Quote:

ps -ef | grep java

Also remember that regular user accounts can not run on a port as low as 80 so you may need to sudo your startup.sh or service, something that you would not have had to do on 8080.