Installing Tomcat

• Go to the Tomcat home page, http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/index.html.
• Specifically, go to http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/release/v4.0.6/bin/.
• Download jakarta-tomcat-4.0.3.exe .  Double click it to run it.
• Once you have installed it, choose Start Tomcat from the installation directory.
• Then, you can open up a browser and go to http://localhost:8080/
• You've now turned your box into a web server.  The index page will appear, complete with links to example JSPs and Servlets.  The source is included, so you have a great place to start!  Take a look at those if you ever need assistance.
• Where do you put your JSPs and servlets?
• Take a look at the directories for the examples and follow that.
• For the examples, JSPs are located in webapps\examples\jsp\ from the installation directory.
• Servlets are located in webapps\examples\web-inf\classes\
• You can add subdirectories/packages from the root.  You'll just need to change that in the URL.  You can also make an application directory instead of /examples/ and use that.  Again, you'll need to chage that in the URL.  Note that examples all have /examples/ in the URL.
• Go through some of the examples to see how they work.  Note the URL, and how it maps to the directories (above).

Created by:  Brandan Jones December 17, 2001