Pre-Installation Step: Installing Tomcat

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Tomcat is a free Web server software and can be installed on the following Windows systems, among others:

 

•Windows Server 2003 32-bit
•Windows Server 2003 64-bit
•Windows Server 2008 32-bit
•Windows Server 2008 64-bit
•Windows Vista
•Windows XP
•Windows 2000
•Windows 7

Note: This guide does not cover installation on other platforms such as Linux.

 

The following are the steps for installing Tomcat:

 

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1.Tomcat requires the Java JDK Version 1.6 (none prior to that) to be present on the Windows system. You can check your current version by completing the following:
•Start > Run…
•Enter “command”.
•In the command window, type “java –version”.
•The java version number is be displayed on the next line.

If you do not have Java or have a version prior to 1.6, download and install the JDK 6 Update from: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp. There are different installers based on platform (32-bit, 64-bit).

2.Download and install Tomcat Windows Service Installer (Version 6 or later) from http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi. During the installation, ensure that you point to the correct folder where Java JDK 1.6 is located.
3.Define the JAVA_HOME environment variable. Go to Control Panel > System > Advance Settings > Advanced > Environment Variables.
4.Under System Variables click New and type JAVA_HOME as the variable name. Provide the JDK 1.6 path as a value.

Pre-Installation Step Installing Tomcat - New System Variable

Note: You may need to restart your system to make the JAVA_HOME variable active in environment. If you aren't ready to restart your computer, just type Set JAVA_HOME={Path to JDK} in the command prompt.

 

5.On the same Environment Variables dialog, under System variables, select the Path variable and click Edit. The Variable value contains a list of paths separated by “;”. This list should contain the path to the JDK\bin path. The \bin folder is just one level below the JDK root, for example: C:\jdk160\bin or C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_06\bin. If the path is not in the value, add it at the end of the existing value.

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6.Check if the C:\Windows\System folder contains the msvcr71.dll file. If you do not see the file then you need to download and copy the file into this folder. This file is freely available online, search for it in Google, or go to the DLL-files.com search page: http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?msvcr71.
7.If you want Tomcat to run on a port other than 8080, edit the server.xml file found in the Tomcat installation subfolder /config. For example: C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\conf\server.xml
8.Look for the <Connector> tag and modify the port attribute. For example:

<Connector port="80" protocol="HTTP/1.1" 

               connectionTimeout="20000" 

               redirectPort="8443" />

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