Installing Tomcat in Windows / Linux

Installing Tomcat on Windows:

• Download the binary distribution of the Tomcat Server 6.0 from http://tomcat.apache.org.
• Usually this would be a zip file, unzip the file just run the executable file.
• Specify the location to be installed
• Provide the Port number, Admin Username, Password
• Specify the path where JRE is installed
• After installing the tomcat server, the CATILINA_HOME environment variable should be set to point the Tomcat installation directory.
• C:Jakarta> set CATALINA_HOME=C:Jakartajakarta-tomcat-5.0.12

Installing Tomcat on Linux:

• Download the jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12.tar.gz file for the instance to /usr/local
• If GNU tar is not installed use the following command
• gunzip -c jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12 | tar xvf
• This will create a directory with sub directories.
• Now unpack the file with following commands.
• cd /usr/local
• tar xzvf jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12.tar.gz.
• Now set the CATALINA_HOME environment variable to point to the installed directory.
• export CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12.
• To start the server in background use- ./startup.sh

After the installation is completed, run tomcat server. If tomcat is installed properly, by typing "http://localhost:8080" in your bowser you will get the screen as below.