Re: Downloading & using tomcat 3.1.1 or 3.2.1

[Andy]

agbortarh_d wrote:  My name is Dominique.I am a beginner in java, but already fascinated with servlets and jsp technologies.My problem now is: I have tried to download tomcat 3.1.1 or 3.2.1, but each time i get confuse on exactly what i have to download. After many trials, i found myself on this site:http://jakarta.apache.org/buildings/jakarta-tomcat/release/v3.2.1The probleme is that, this site has many folders, but nothing to indicate the folder i really need.Please help me out. Let me  know what i really need from tomcat to be able to run my servlets and jsp.Thanks for your help and advice.Dominique.  What operating system are you on?  If you're on windows UNZIP the http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/tomcat/release/v3.2.1/bin/jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1.zip and goto the doc subdirectory. On Unicies (unix varients including linux or hurd, etc),  get the file by the same name only with the .tar.gz (because its smaller than the tar) and do tar -xvzf jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1.tar.gz in the directory you want. On both operating systems you'll need a 1.3.x jdk.  I do not recommend tomcat 3.1.1 as it was not the most stable of releases (or by popular public opinion sorry if I offend anyone).  You can get that from java.sun.com.  (if you don't have it seperate from Visual Age or some IDE). Once you get that far there is sufficient documentation to walk you through the basic setup in the /doc subdirectory.