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I’m having trouble installing Tomcat on my windows XP machine. I already have Apache and JDK 6 installed, what I need to know is:
Which file to download from the Lastest Tomcat download page
And how to install it so I can run the sample web app by going to http://localhost/
In my C:\Program Files\Java folder, I see the following folders, this should give you an idea of whether I need any additional stuff installed:
Thanks.
Tomcat 6 doesn’t really need the full JDK and it runs with Java 1.5 as well, so Java wise you should be well off. Just make sure that JAVA_HOME environment variable is set.
You can either get the core zip or tar.gz file, or the Windows Service installer file.
Core zip file:
http://www.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.18/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.18.zip
Just unzip it and run bin/startup.bat. If you’d like to install it as a Windows service (and get the ‘usual’ program entry in Windows add/remove programs) you can get the Windows Service Installer file instead:
http://www.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.18/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.18.exe
By default tomcat listens to port 8080, so to check out the sample apps you need to go to http://localhost:8080/examples/. You can change the default port by editing server.xml in the conf directory.