Installing Tomcat on Windows  You may find the Tomcat install shield has some problems recognizing JSDK 1.4 beta installations.  You can nevertheless install Tomcat, using the UNIX style commands suggested earlier, if you have Cygwin running (  Alternatively, uninstall JSDK 1.4 beta (if you have installed it), and install JDK 1.3 instead.

Installing JDK 1.3 on Windows  If your computer has an administrator account, log in as such.  Point Internet Explorer at  Follow the “Microsoft Windows” link. Click “continue”, and accept the license.  Click, e.g., “FTP download”. A File Download dialog will probably pop up. Select “Run this program from its current location” if you have the option. –Otherwise, or if you want to install on a different machine, save the.exe to a file, transfer it by suitable media (34M) to the target machine, and run it there.  Click through the installation shield. Accept all defaults unless you have a good reason not to. The software should now be installed.  Add C:\jdk1.3.1_01\bin to your PATH. –Item 4. of gives painstaking instructions for every known variant of Windows.  While you are doing this, create a new environment variable called JAVA_HOME, and set its value to be C:\jdk1.3.1_01. This is for the benefit of Tomcat.  Type the command java –version in a new command prompt window, to test.

Installing Tomcat 4 on Windows  Go to the Jakarta home page:  Follow the Binaries link under Download.  Under the heading Release Builds, follow the Tomcat link.  Follow one of the links labeled bin/ or binary.  Click on jakarta-tomcat exe. A File Download dialog will probably pop up. Select “Run this program from its current location”, if you have the option. –Otherwise, or if you want to install on a different machine, save the.exe to a file, transfer it by suitable media (7M) to the target machine, and run it there.  Click through the installation shield. Accept all defaults if you like, although I chose C:\jakarta-tomcat as the installation directory (rather than the default, which is under C:\Program Files). The software should now be installed.  Set the environment variable JAVA_HOME, if you haven’t already done so (see previous slide). In a similar way, create an environment variable CATALINA_HOME with value C:\jakarta-tomcat, or your selected installation directory.

Starting and Stopping your Server  To start your server, start a Command Prompt Window, and run the command C:\jakarta-tomcat\bin\startup.bat.  To stop your server run the command C:\jakarta-tomcat\bin\shutdown.bat. –Of course, replace c:\jakarta-tomcat here with your selected installation directory, if you chose a different one.

Check Your Server is Running  Running a Web browser on the same machine, point it at:  If you are running your server on a host with fixed DNS name, hostname, you may point a browser from another computer at the URL:  You should see the default Tomcat home page, which contains some useful documentation.