The project failed because of a tomcat port conflict that resulted in Eclipse publishing. So to modify the port in the Server.xml file, restart using Eclipse Publish project, found still newspapers port conflict error, for the reason, the changes just to Server.xml file was overwritten by Eclipse, using the Server.xml file that comes with Eclispe, as follows:
Since eclipse will only overwrite the Server.xml file in tomcat with this file, I'll just comment on modifying the server.xml file that comes with Eclipse. Test results if so. There have been no previous concerns about the role of files in the Servers directory in Eclipse, which was used to overwrite related files in Tomcat when Eclipse published the project.
So the workaround is to directly modify the Server.xml file in the Servers directory that comes with eclipse.
Server.xml and Content.xml files are automatically restored when Eclipse publishes the project