Tomcat Setup Page

Tomcat Setup

First download jdk1.5 from http://java.sun.com/j2se/
Install jdk, following the instruction in http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/install-linux.html
Set environment variable JAVA_HOME to the path of the directory where the jdk is installed.
Download tomcat from http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_tomcat-5.cgi
current verson is 5.5.9. For Linux download the 5.5.9.tar.gz
In the directory with the compressed tar file, run
tar xzvf jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9.tar.gz
Here jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9.tar.gz is the download binary tomcat distribution.
cd jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/bin
start the tomcat with
startup.sh
check if it is up with
http://sanluis.uccs.edu:8080/
assume sanluis is the machine you run the startup.sh
If you see the apache tomcat web page, then the server is running.
to shutdown tomcat use
shutdown.sh
For tomcat 5.5 document, see
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.5-doc/index.html
The default web page and jsp pages are in webapps directory.
The ROOT subdirectory there contains the default web page of tomcat.
The jsp-examples contains the jsp demo web pages.