I have a dedicated Linux server to host my website, which apparently runs on apache and i have placed the code in /var/www/html/ and its working fine. But now i wanted to host another one(war file) using the tomcat but after i install tomcat and doing everything i am not able to access the tomcat. Tomcat is running fine but couldn't access tomcat home page with http://IP_Adress:8080/ As far as i understood , the firewall is blocking the port 8080. So could anyone please help me unblocking the port.

Okay,

The questions abound from this one:

1. What is the exact error you get when you try browsing to http://<ip address of server>:8080/ directly?
2. Do you get the same error when you try browsing from the server itself to http://127.0.0.1:8080/?
3. What distro/distribution and version of Linux are you running?
4. Do you know what the name of the firewall software is that is running on it?

Let us know.