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

Question

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

Answer 1

On modern linux the best approach (for me) is to use xinetd :

1) create /etc/xinet.d/tomcat-http

service http
{
        disable = no
        socket_type = stream
        user = root
        wait = no
        redirect = 127.0.0.1 8080
}

2) create /etc/xinet.d/tomcat-https

service https
{
        disable = no
        socket_type = stream
        user = root
        wait = no
        redirect = 127.0.0.1 8443
}

3) chkconfig xinetd on

4) /etc/init.d/xinetd start