When you don't give your browser get a port number, it assumes port 80
which is the registered, well known port for web traffic as defined by
the IANA. Production websites all listen on port 80 which is why you
never have to put it in your URLs to Google for example. The entire
list of these well known, registered ports is available at
http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
The default port as found in the server.xml file of a fresh downloaded
tomcat is 8080 to avoid possible conflicts with a production web server
if one happens to be on the same box. There's also a legacy restriction
in unix/linux distribution that only the root user can use ports less
than 1024. These days there are ways to get around that with port
mapping or the commons-daemon project (http://commons.apache.org/daemon).
On a Windows system with no other web server software, you should be
able to just change the port number from 8080 to 80 in your server.xml
and restart the service. Then you can hit your tomcat w/o the port number.
--David
jdpl wrote:
Hi,
how come when I'm accessing a page on my local apache, i always have to put
in the port number, e.g:
http://localhost:8080/somepage
but when i'm accessing a remote website, i never put in the port number. Is
there anyway I can configure my tomcat to not use the port number?
thanks,
J
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