Tomcat Installation on Windows Systems

JSP Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟Tomcat Installation on Windows Systems

This chapter provides tutorial notes and example codes on Tomcat installation on Windows systems. Topics include downloading and installing Tomcat for Windows systems; setting up environment variables to launch Tomcat server; setting up user access for server admin Web pages; Web application manager; first HTML and JSP page.

Downloading and Installing Tomcat

Launching Tomcat Server

Verifying Tomcat Server

Setting Up Tomcat Server Admin Access

Reviewing Tomcat Server Status Page

Tomcat Web Application Manager

My First HTML Page - hello.html

My First JSP Page - hello.jsp

Conclusions:

Downloading and installing Tomcat with the Windows binary ZIP version is easy.
Java 8 or higher must be installed in order to run Tomcat 9 server.
Setting up of user role, name and password in tomcat-users.xml is needed to access Tomcat server admin pages.
Tomcat Web Application Manager allows you to manage applications that are running on the server.
Tomcat supports JSP pages by default with no extra configuration.