How to make Tomcat work on port 80 instead of 8080?

Sometimes people host applications that are fully Java based and don’t require a Webserver to access their application. However, in such a case, the application has to be accessed with port 8080 i.e. http://domainname:8080 which is not feasible. There are 2 ways for the Java application to work on port 80, so people don’t have to mention port 8080 in their URL We will take a look at each of the above 2 options below: 1. The easiest way is to change the Tomcat port from port 8080 to 80 in [...]