Look for a line "port=8080" in conf/server.xml, and change it to 80.
Note that, on Linux, you need root permissions to use port 80.

Not sure if this helps but I front end Tomcat with Apache2. Apache2 can
handle all 80 port and forward 8080 to tomcat.

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Hi,

if you're running Tomcat under Linux (and same apply to other Unix*s)
and want to run Tomcat in stand-alone mode (ie without Apache),
the safest way to do this is to configure the stateful firewall
(iptables under Linux) to do DNAT.  That means basically adding
a single line that may look like this:

iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT \
 --todestination ...:8080

You may want to google for "iptables" and "dnat" to learn more on this.

That way you don't need Apache and you don't need to run Tomcat
as root (both Sun's Java JVM and Tomcat can be installed in userspace
under Linux [which is not the case under Windows]).

HTH,

 Alex

Change the string port="8080" in the server.xml file to port="80".
The server.xml file is in the conf directory where you installed
Tomcat.