Apache Tomcat can be configured on Windows 7 over small networks to set up a web server. Here we show how you can do it in a few simple steps
Apache Tomcat is a web server developed in Java that aims to provide you with a pure Java environment for running web applications. In order to install Tomcat you need a JDK on the system.
Step 1. Go to Start menu and right click on computer and click on properties. Next click on Advanced System Settings in the Java Environment Variable. Click on Environment Variables.
Step 2: On system variables option click on New. Give Variable Name JAVA_HOME and Variable Value which is the path of java JDK folder and click OK.
Step 3: After installing and setting JAVA_HOME environment variables, go to the Tomcat software and run .exe file. Use default settings and provide a username and password.
Step 4: Please change the installation path to c:Tomcat8.0.
Step5: If Tomcat has been successfully installed, open a Web browser and type in the following URL:http://localhost:8080/. Click on server status and provide your username and password.
Step 6: At this point, you should see the Tomcat home page, which is provided by the Tomcat Web server running on your computer.
Step7: Setup Your CLASSPATH: Since servlets and JSP are not part of the Java 2 platform, standard edition, you have to identify the servlet classes to the compiler. The server already knows about the servlet classes, but the compiler (i.e., javac) you use for development probably doesn’t. So, if you don’t set your CLASSPATH, attempts to compile servlets, tag libraries, or other classes that use the servlet and JSP APIs will fail with error messages about unknown classes. The standard Tomcat location is c:tomcatlibservlet.jar. Click on OK and close the window.
Step 8: Set your CATALINA_HOME: To edit system variables path just find path variable in system variables, click on edit option and at variable value add the path of Java and Tomcat bin folder, separate the two different path with semicolon; in our case the given path is java and tomcat. It is C:Program FilesJavajdk1.8.0_20bin;C:Tomcat 8.0bin. Now click OK and close the window and you have successfully configured Tomcat on Windows 7.