Installing Apache Tomcat 6.0 [Window XP/Vista]

This is a simple tutorial for installing Apache Tomcat J2EE server and verifying the installation.

Installing Apache Tomcat

1. You can download Apache Tomcat 6.X from http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi. The installer name is apache-tomcat-6.X.XX.exe
   
2. Execute the installer. Click next.
3. Setup the tomcat installation path and click next. The default is 

   C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0

   

4. Setup the component, usually you don’t to configurate any thing here. click next.
5. Setup the admin from the Apache Tomcat web servers. By default the name of admin is admin and password is empty. It is HIGHLY recommended to enter the admin password for security threat.
   
6. Setup the JRE path. Tomcat 6.0 requires JDK/JRE 5.0+ for installing properly.
   
7. Install and Bingo !

Verifying the installation 

1. Start Apache Tomcat web server through command line mode.
   1. Click Start – > Run -> cmd.exe 
   2. Change the current directory to your Tomcat installation path. By default you should execute

      cd C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\bin
      

      

   3. Execute tomcat6
2. Okay the tomcat6 is successfully started, lanuch a web browser and go to :

   http://localhost:8080

3. If you able to see the web page shown before, then Apache Tomcat has started successfully without error ! Bingo :p
   

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