Installing Tomcat

Learn how to install Apache Tomcat

If you do not have Tomcat installed, there may be another servlet container or application server installed on your system, which you can use for Hippo CMS, see here. If you decide you want Tomcat, continue.

1 Download

Download Tomcat 6.0 from the Apache Tomcat website.

2UnzipUnpack the zip. In the rest of this todo list, the acquired tomcat folder will be called $TOMCATDIR. It has a name like apache-tomcat-6.0.18.
3Startup
Start Tomcat with one of the startup scripts in $TOMCATDIR/bin, .sh for Linux and .bat for MS.
4Web Browser
Users can now open the local Tomcat site http://localhost:8080 in their browsers.
5Quit
Quit Tomcat with one of the shutdown scripts in $TOMCATDIR/bin. .sh for Linux and .bat for MS.

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