resolving to port 80 instead of 8080

[mholmes]

is there a reason that alfresco was ported to port 8080 instead of port 80?  Here I'd really like to just set it up to as port 80 and have it server.domain and have it resolve to the right address, instead of http://server.domain:8080/alfresco

[peterz]

Hi all,

I would like to make alfresco accessible on port 80 so that no port number has to be added. No other services are running on port 80 so no problem there.
In Alfresco\tomcat\conf\server.xml I have this:

    <Connector port="80" URIEncoding="UTF-8" protocol="HTTP/1.1" 
               connectionTimeout="20000" 
               redirectPort="8443" />‍‍‍

After a restart, I get a page with 2 input fields and a 'Submit Query' button; could this be due the redirect port?

Running CE 4.0 on windows 2k3 R2, firewall is disabled.

TIA
P.

EDIT
I have also tried with the redirecPort="8080" setting but then I get this error:

A server error has occured.

There are a number of reasons why this could have happened:

    You have attempted to access a page that does not exist - check the URL in the address bar.
    You have attempted to access a page that is not accessable to you, such as a private Site dashboard.
    A valid page has been requested but the server was unable to render it due to an internal error - contact your administrator.

According to the tomcat 6 information that I've found, it should be like that in the server.xml file but I guess that's in a different scenario - have very basic experience with apache/tomcat.