well tomcat has its own web server listening to 8080. Due to many reasons (read security, firewall - dmz configuration, performance and clustering) it is not recommended to use the built in web server and use apache web server instead and use mod_jk to plug it in with tomcat. In short, apache is not needed and you may very well work with tomcat webserver View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3978118#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...