I've had trouble just changing the port to 80 as well. I suspect you'll run into the same problem with any other port under 1024. The quick, dumb, and effective fix is to just throw in an iptables line to forward traffic on port 80 to port 8069. This script will add the line into your current configuration:

#!/bin/bash
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8069
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 443 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8070
iptables-save

Make sure to change eth0 if needed. Also threw in HTTPS settings too, but if you want to use HTTPS you might as well set up a reverse proxy in nginx. Article is about a year old but follow the steps and it should work perfectly on 7.0.

This change doesn't last through a reboot though, so you'll have to do a bit more work to get it to persist, but this will certainly get you started.

Hi All,

I know, I am too late to answer this, but this answer might be help full to other. Few days ago, I am having same issue, after searching a lot on Interent and experiment with few things, I got solution. I am working on Ubuntu 14.04 (This solution also work on Ubuntu 12.04).

1. Go to terminal open rc.local file. rc.local file reside in etc folder.
   sudo gedit /etc/rc.local
2. Paste this command on rc.local file and save
   iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8069
3. Reboot Ubuntu, to see effect
   sudo reboot

This work perfectly, as per my need. I have created article on this, you can check more details here http://pulse7.net/openerp/run-odoo-port-80-instead-8069/

Hi

By default, Odoo runs on Port 8069, but in some cases, you may want to change it to Port 80 for easier access or to align with your existing web server configurations. the video tutorial will provide you with the necessary instructions to make this modification.

https://youtu.be/d8IWr8QGaOA

Best Regards

Tobasi 

Hi,

Iam using Windows os, can anyone help me in converting the port 8069 to 80, my aim is to host the website built in a website builder in odoo.

Hello,

No am sure that no other service is using port 80, the port is not opened . ( tried telnet to the linux machine on port 80)

Just spent quite a bit of time on this.

My solution would not work following the path of changing openerp-server.conf except for 

adding 127.0.0.1 at the end of xmlrpc-interface= and netrcp-interface=

OpenErp and now Odoo needs its own Ports still) (such as 8069)

Used Apache to Redirect 80 to 443 (Http invokes HTTPS)

Used a Apache Reverse Proxy to route 443 to the Server on  8069.  

8069 itself is now only can only be connected to by the Server Itself (changed setting in openerp-server.conf) so no "unsecure" html is going outbound. 

• xmlrcp-interface=127.0.0.1

• netrpc-interface=127.0.0.1
  

The whole system is running in SSL on 443 now.

I know others have done this, just needed to tie my system together and ended up seeing this post along the way.  I am sure there are several solutions.

i just use nginx  to redirect every url request to port 8069 

Hi Jad,

You might find this solution from ADempiere ERP bit more elegant: http://www.adempiere.com/Proxy_Adempiere_Through_Apache

Note that a few changes were made to fit the purpose of running OpenERP but credit goes to the author of the original post.

Set up Apache:

In httpd.conf (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf in Fedora)

Enable modules for proxy (normally enabled by default):

LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_connect_module modules/mod_proxy_connect.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so

Then add the following lines to your httpd