Hi Nico,
First, my best advice is to open a command prompt and run the startup.bat
file from there in order to see any error messages generated by the startup.
Assuming you had unzipped tomcat into c:\tomcat-3.2.1
and the current JDK into c:\jdk1.3.0_02
you would want to have environment variables of:
TOMCAT_HOME=c:\tomcat-3.2.1
JAVA_HOME=c:\jdk1.3.0_02
PATH=c:\jdk1.3.0_02\bin;%PATH%
You want the bin folder below c:\jdk1.3.0_02 in your path, as that is where
java.exe and javac.exe are located. Finally, you will want to add all the
.jars in the c:\tomcat-3.2.1\lib folder to your CLASSPATH env. variable.
Although tomcat adds them automatically when you start it, they won't be
there when you go to compile a servlet, and javac will just spit out an
error (assuming that is how you are compiling them).
CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;c:\tomcat-3.2.1\lib\servlet.jar;...etc.
You set environment vars, as you probably know, by opening Control Panel,
then system, the Advanced (for win2k). You'll probably want to set tomcat
up as a service under Win2k/nt. Easy to do, download the jk_nt_service.zip
file and use the tomcat docs to do this.
.WAR files are web archives, and are a part of the current servlet spec --
they are analogous to .jars. If you put a .war file below
c:\tomcat-3.2.1\webapps, it should expand it for you automatically. I'm
reasonably sure that the ANT tool creates them, but I *haven't* used it, so
I'm speaking based on an impression from looking at it a little on the
jakarta.apache.org page. Lots of commercial tools create them. I'm
*reasonably* sure there will be a tool on that site if it isn't ANT --
anyone?
Gordon
A tomcat newbie as of this past Fri.
----- Original Message -----
From: "H.F.N. den Boer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 5:59 PM
Subject: setting up Tomcat, newbee question
> Hello,
>
> To test Java servlet applications, I used Apache webserver with JServ.
> Now I intend to switch to Tomcat 3.2.1.
> First attempt is to have Tomcat run as a stand alone servlet container.
> Second attempt will be adding Tomcat to Apache webserver locally and
> configure my Win2000 webserver with IIS to work with Tomcat. Therefore,
> Tomcat doesn't have to work with static web content.
>
> On page
> file:///E|/Java/tomcat/doc/uguide/tomcat_ug.html
> I read that I need to set TOMCAT_HOME, JAVA_HOME and PATH.
> After that, Tomcat should start with startup.bat (Win98).
> Tomcat.bat executes :startServer, I see a Java window with usage
> information, which closes immediately.
>
> On various places, I changed in conf files the wrapper-pointers to
> tomcat_home and java_home to appropriate values. No result.
>
> Questions;
> - How do I get Tomcat working ?
> - In doc's I read about WAR's. How can I make them (so far I used only
> jar's).
> - I would like to configure Tomcat to recognise different url's and
> because of that use other jar's (or war's), have other home directories
etc.
>
> Maybe these questions sound stupid, but any help is greatly appreciated...
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Nico den Boer
>
>
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