Changing port from 8080 to 80?

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Dear BO Experts,

I’m dealing with a fresh installation of BO 4.2 and I want to change the URL to connect to BO Launchpad.

I saw in forums that also is recommended to change the port 8080 to 80

As far as I understood, it is to avoid conflicts with other applications.

How can I know that it is causing conflicts with other applications? BO shall run slowly? or it shouldnt run at all?

Do you recommend “Yes or yes” to change this?

Thanks a lot!
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Victor_BCN :es: (BOB member since 2009-09-15)

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The reason for changing the port is to eliminate the need to specify the port in the URL. If you leave the setting as-is, then the URL for BO is http://server:8080/BOE/BI. If you change the port to 80, then it can be left off: http://server/BOE/BI.

This will not work if there is another web server running on the same machine that is also on port 80. If this is the case, Tomcat will not start at all.

To change the port setting, open up tomcat\conf\server.xml, and simply replace “8080” with “80”.

joepeters :us: (BOB member since 2002-08-29)