Tomcat configaration

1.Install java 1.5 0r 1.6
2.set PATH by putting following line to c:\autoexec.bat file.(use JDK1.5)

set PATH="C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_07\bin";%PATH%

3.Check configured properly by using "java -version" and "javac -help" in command prompt.Make sure not an error message about an unknown command.

4.Go to http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi and download and unpack the zip file to C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.10 (current version of tomcat 6.0.10)

5.set JAVA_HOME directory by putting following line to c:\autoexec.bat file

set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_07


6.Turn on Servlet Reloading

To turn on servlet reloading, edit Edit C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.14\conf\context.xml and change

< Context >
to
< Context reloadable="true" privileged="true" >

7.Now in the command prompt

C:\>AUTOEXEC.BAT
C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.14\bin>startup.bat