How to start tomcat startup from command prompt?

[Dinesh Kumar J]

I am using Apache tomcat 7.0.12.

Could anyone please let me know how to start the tomcat server from command prompt?

In Linux, we can give /<location address>/startup.sh. What to give in Windows 7 ?

I want to check whether tomcat server is running or not from the command prompt.

Please guide me.

Many thanks in advance.

[Bear Bibeault]

I assume that there is a corresponding .bat file in the bin folder?

[Dinesh Kumar J]

I checked my private messages and submitted a request to change my display name. It is in progress.

Yes. startup.bat and stop.bat files are there. But when I double click on that one, I am not able to see whether the tomcat is started or not.

[William Brogden]

Open a command prompt window, navigate to the bin directory and execute startup.bat from the command line.

You will see some information on the parameters Tomcat is trying to use, but startup.bat tries to execute another bat file in a command prompt window which may pop up and close before you can see what happens. To keep that 2nd window open modify startup.bat call statement to use run instead of start:

call "%EXECUTABLE%" run %CMD_LINE_ARGS%
rem start = new window or run - stay in command prompt window
:end

Bill