Ramesh,
There are 2 ways to download Tomcat for Windows -- a zip file (.zip) and an
installation file (.exe). You can do either but use the installation file. It
will install Tomcat on your machine and add it to the task bar on the right
with a little feather and either a green right arrow (started) or a red dot
(stopped). It will also install shortcuts and icons in Start-Programs-Tomcat
5.5.
Go into your services list under Control Panel - Administration Tools and you
will see the Apache Tomcat service - mine says Apache Tomcat - Apache Tomcat
5.5.7 Server - http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/.
You can start and stop it like any other service with the Start and Stop
buttons provided in Services. You can even do it from the Command prompt --
issue NET START and NET STOP commands (typical Windows service stuff). If you
need help with that search the web or look under Windows Help.
When you install Tomcat, it will ask you some basic questions to get you up and
going. I don't believe it starts the service automatically but if you follow
what I have above it will be easy. When I click the Apache Tomcat feather in
the task bar area on the right with my left mouse button, I don't get a pop up
window to start or stop -- I get a Tomcat Properties dialog box where I need to
click the Start or stop button (it is the Services dialog box that pops up).
You need to click it with the right mouse button to get a context menu for
start, stop, configure, about and exit.
The default directory installation is at C:\Program Files\Apache Software
Foundation\Tomcat 5.5. Go under the logs directory and you will find the log
info. Go under conf directory and will need to look at the files:
1. server.xml
2. context.xml
3. web.xml
4. workers.properties (this is especially needed when you have to integrate
Apache Tomcat with the Apache Web Server)
For Apache HTTP Server (Web server) I get an icon on the right like Tomcat but
I can use my left mouse button to start and stop that service. I am using both
on a Windows 2000 Server machine and know through experience how difficult they
made it to connect the latest Apache Web Server and Tomcat tools, expecially
when you have to use mod_jk (well documented) and mod_proxy (was not documented
as well and that is why I had to join this list).
Go to this link -- it will help you tremendously:
http://www.coreservlets.com/Apache-Tomcat-Tutorial/
Good luck,
Sal Magnotta
Hi,
I have downloaded Tomcat 5 on my Windows 2000 machine. I see neither
Start Tomcat nor Stop Tomcat programs in the start menu. In case I
make any changes to my class files that require the restart of the server,
how do I do so? Also, where can I see the logs of my application? Using
Tomcat 4.1, I could restart Tomcat by selecting Start Tomcat program
from the start menu which also used to display the logs of the
application..
Thanks,
Ramesh
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From: Darryl Wilburn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 7:30 AM
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Subject: Re: Windows Installation - Tomcat Start and Stop in the
Start menu
I'm a little new at this, but I downloaded the binaries for 5.5.7 and ran
through the setup program which installed Apache Tomcat as a service in
Windows. In that case, you stop and start it just as you would any other
service.
Hope this helps,
Darryl
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Hi,
I have downloaded Tomcat 5 on my Windows 2000 machine. I see neither
Start Tomcat nor Stop Tomcat programs in the start menu. In case I
make any changes to my class files that require the restart of the server,
how do I do so? Also, where can I see the logs of my application? Using
Tomcat 4.1, I could restart Tomcat by selecting Start Tomcat program
from the start menu which also used to display the logs of the
application..
Thanks,
Ramesh
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