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Tomcat Setup

Introduction

This is page documents the steps required to get Tomcat up and running. It assumes that you have downloaded and unzipped a Tomcat distribution and you are running on a Windows machine using Cygwin. This means you are interacting with your system through Cygwin using a Bash or similar shell.

Prerequisites

1. Have installed Java (see java-setup-tips.txt) 2. Downloaded and unpacked Tomcat

Running Tomcat

First, make sure you have Java installed and a valid $JAVA_HOME environment setting. (see java-setup-tips.txt).

Set CATALINA_HOME

There is a convention to set CATALINA_HOME to the tomcat installation directory. For example,

$ cd $CATALINA_HOME

Brad@BRAD-THINKPAD /cygdrive/c/home/brad/tools/apache-tomcat-6.0.14

With this you can run things in a somewhat conventional manner.

Start script

$ .$/CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh

Verify

From a browser the following URL

http://localhost:8080

You should see an Apache Tomcat page