New to Tomcat

[Saulo Menezes]

I have installed Tomcat on my computer recently and I haven't figured out how to work with it yet. Would anyone be able to tell me where I could find a straightfoward tutorial for non programmers? Many thanks!

Saulo

[Mike Curwen]

Here's a popular page describing how to make sure Tomcat is set up and working properly:
http://www.moreservlets.com/Using-Tomcat-4.html

As for tutorials, I think the examples web-app that is included in Tomcat is quite good. Take your time to go through all the servlets and jsps on this example application and you'll have a good start.

[N Val]

Hi mike,
I went through the link u gave here and tried to set up my Tomcat. But my startup.bat file doesnt open the command window..it just blinks and goes off. what could be wrong?
I didnt set the CATALINA_HOME variable as its an optional one.
I am using Tomcat4.0.6 and jdk1.4.1_01 version on WinXP professional
Thanks.

[Zulfikar Dharmawan]

Try to open Command Window first, then go to bin directory of the Tomcat, then type startup there.
Maybe it was the PATH, just maybe.
Hope that helps.

[N Val]

Hi Zulfikar,
Thanks for the reply. I did what u said. It still behaves the same. Any other help?
Thanks.

[William Brogden]

Thats one of the unfortunate characteristics of the way the default Tomcat startup runs - in the event of a fatal error, boom!
What I do when having trouble with Tomcat startup is to change the next to the last line in the startup.bat so that instead of
call "%EXECUTABLE%" start %CMD_LINE_ARGS%
you change start to run
This will run the Catalina batch file in the same command window - start makes it start a separate window which then dies.
You do have to be in a command window in the /bin directory and enter startup - that window will stay open no matter what.
If you still can't figure out what is going wrong, rem out the @echo off line at the first of the catalina.bat file
Bill