Originally posted by kris123
Its because one of the apps developer uses also port
8080 and he said changing it would mean editing
all his programs and recompile them.
This is i would say is a bad practise... ask the developer not to hard code port numbers and URLs, they are to be picked from a property file...

If this development is for a client then this is not at all accaptable as this can lead to problems, what if client does not want to open the port 8080... or they want some other port...

As for changing the Apache port number, go to ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/conf and edit the httpd.conf file and search for 8080 or the words "Port" and "Listen" (without the quotes) and you will find the port numbers there, just change them and do a restart of your apache server from the service.