Tomcat won't load default web page in browser

Question

I can't get the default webpage for tomcat to appear. The webpage says:

This webpage is not available ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

I set the port to 8081 in server.xml

 <Connector port="8081" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
               connectionTimeout="20000"
               redirectPort="8443" />
    <!-- A "Connector" using the shared thread pool-->

I have a launch.bat file that should launch Tomcat when ran in cmd unless I'm misunderstanding how it works. I'm a beginner and have never used Tomcat before. Here's the deploy.bat file running. Any help is appreciated.

 Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.10240]
(c) 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Joe>cd workspace/TomcatProject/src/week09/week09

C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09\week09>launch.bat
'launch.bat' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09\week09>cd..

C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09>launch.bat

C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09>setlocal

C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09>SET TOOLS_HOME=C:\projects\tools\

C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09>SET TOMCAT_HOME=tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14

C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09>SET JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_45

C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09>SET CATALINA_HOME=C:\projects\tools\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14

C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09>C:\projects\tools\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14\bin\startup.bat
Using CATALINA_BASE:   "C:\projects\tools\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14"
Using CATALINA_HOME:   "C:\projects\tools\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14"
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: "C:\projects\tools\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14\temp"
Using JRE_HOME:        "C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_65"
Using CLASSPATH:       "C:\projects\tools\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14\bin\bootstrap.jar;C:\projects\tools\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14\bin\tomcat-juli.jar"
C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09>launch.bat

C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09>setlocal

C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09>SET TOOLS_HOME=C:\projects\tools\

C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09>SET TOMCAT_HOME=tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14

C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09>SET JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_45

C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09>SET CATALINA_HOME=C:\projects\tools\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14

C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09>C:\projects\tools\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14\bin\startup.bat
Using CATALINA_BASE:   "C:\projects\tools\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14"
Using CATALINA_HOME:   "C:\projects\tools\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14"
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: "C:\projects\tools\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14\temp"
Using JRE_HOME:        "C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_65"
Using CLASSPATH:       "C:\projects\tools\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14\bin\bootstrap.jar;C:\projects\tools\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14\bin\tomcat-juli.jar"
C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09>launch.bat

C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09>setlocal

C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09>SET TOOLS_HOME=C:\projects\tools\

C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09>SET TOMCAT_HOME=tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14

C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09>SET JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_45

C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09>SET CATALINA_HOME=C:\projects\tools\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14

C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09>C:\projects\tools\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14\bin\startup.bat
Using CATALINA_BASE:   "C:\projects\tools\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14"
Using CATALINA_HOME:   "C:\projects\tools\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14"
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: "C:\projects\tools\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14\temp"
Using JRE_HOME:        "C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_65"
Using CLASSPATH:       "C:\projects\tools\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14\bin\bootstrap.jar;C:\projects\tools\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14\bin\tomcat-juli.jar"
C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09>launch.bat

C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09>setlocal

C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09>SET TOOLS_HOME=C:\projects\tools\

C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09>SET TOMCAT_HOME=tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14

C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09>SET JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_45

C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09>SET CATALINA_HOME=C:\projects\tools\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14

C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09>C:\projects\tools\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14\bin\startup.bat
Using CATALINA_BASE:   "C:\projects\tools\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14"
Using CATALINA_HOME:   "C:\projects\tools\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14"
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: "C:\projects\tools\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14\temp"
Using JRE_HOME:        "C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_65"
Using CLASSPATH:       "C:\projects\tools\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14\bin\bootstrap.jar;C:\projects\tools\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.14-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-8.0.14\bin\tomcat-juli.jar"
C:\Users\Joe\workspace\TomcatProject\src\week09>

Answer 1

Likely you haven't stopped Tomcat since you modified your server.xml configuration. The log file contains a successful start of tomcat initially, then several failed starts due to "bind failed" which typicially means tomcat is still running. So stop it, then restart it and it should work.