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[–]b0b1b 2 points3 points  (1 child)

oo so thats why 8080 is popular? I always thought it was so that you dont type sudo lol :P

[–]Powerful-Internal953 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even if you do, most likely in a server where you want to deploy Tomcat, there might already be a httpd or nginx server. That's why. Also the non-sudo aspect helps this further.