JBoss comes with 3 different server profiles, namely "minimal", "default" and "all". When you use the run.bat (without the -c parameter), the "default" instance is started. anonymous wrote : I tried changing server.xml in server\all\deploy\jboss-web.deployer You did the changes to the "all" profile. If you want to use this profile with these changes then start your JBoss as follows: run.bat -c all However if you want to use the "default" profile then do the port related changes in files present under %JBOSS_HOME%\server\default. Then start JBoss as follows: run.bat View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4130083#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...