-----Original Message----- From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 11:32 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: 1st time user
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Brian, Please bottom-post or mix your responses inside of the original message. It's much easier to read and the convention on this mailing list. I've re-formatted your message slightly. Please see below. On 2/27/15 12:12 PM, Brian V. Casteel wrote: >> -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Schultz >> [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] Sent: Friday, February 27, >> 2015 11:02 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: 1st time user >> >> Brian, >> >> On 2/27/15 11:32 AM, Brian V. Casteel wrote: >>> I am wanting to set up Tomcat on my windows 2008 server and utilize >>> it with my page running on IIS. However I don't event know where to >>> begin. Can anyone help me out? >> >> Do you have an application you want to deploy, or do you just want to >> use Tomcat as a web server? >> >> Getting started is pretty easy. What have you read/done already? > > I haven’t done much of anything. I downloaded what I think is the > appropriate versions of tomcat 8 for my server, other than that I'm > incredibly lost. You have a few options. For Windows users, perhaps the Windows Installer (one of the .exe downloads) is probably the easiest to use: you'll get everything installed in a standard place (C:\Program Files) and it will also install the Windows Service that you can use to start/stop Tomcat. If you download one of the ZIP packages, you can unzip it anywhere you want. Launching Tomcat from the command-line is often a little easier to troubleshoot when you are getting started. I can't remember if the startup scripts are or are not included in the .exe packages; I seem to remember them being missing in the past. I'm not prepared to download and install the .exe package right now just to check, though. > And in response to the first half that message I have at least one > Java script I want to have on my webpage that is currently served up > by IIS. Would you like to connect IIS to Tomcat, or do you want to use Tomcat instead? I was hoping to connect IIS to Tomcat rather than migrate my pages The thing that's usually most confusing to new users is that Tomcat isn't a traditional web server where you just point it at a directory (DocumentRoot in Apache httpd's parlance, not sure what it's called in IIS) and serve files from it. Instead, everything is a "web application" which can be very simple -- just having a few .html files or whatever -- or it can have servlets, JSPs, and all kinds of other things that are more interesting than just static files. Unfortunately, the "getting started" documentation in the Users' Guide is not great. There are whole sections of your local public library or bookstore devoted to the basics of Java web applications, so repeating all that stuff in Tomcat's documentation is kind of ... repetitive. Understanding what a "web application" is, in terms of structure, is probably going to be the best time spent as you get started, here. Do a little bit of Googling and maybe to get a book on Java web applications and read some of the introductory sections. O'Reilly's "Tomcat: The Definitive Guide" is fairly good, though it's based upon Tomcat 6 and so some of the specific configurations are a bit out of date, but if you are okay with a loose interpretation of those specifics, it's worth the read. The book is HUGE, so don't try to go read the whole thing before getting started. Wrox's "Professional Java for Web Applications" is also good, though it moves very quickly and goes from covering "the basics" to ... well, everything else under the sun. It's also enormous, so don't think you have to read the whole thing. The authors of both of those books do lurk on this mailing list, and no, I don't get paid if you buy their books (though I should consider asking for some consideration!). So do a bit of reading and ask whatever questions you have, here. But don't ask this community to teach you how to write web applications because that will become tiresome for them. :) Welcome to the community. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJU8KoFAAoJEBzwKT+lPKRY1sQQAI3qHSgZgYA2YfHVnnYC4oGG NIZI5YZnVU9pHR29DlhEjobUkFhXTKFCHGikcuUId6RWvv6FNFq9h3eCZwIE11WN 1EQ7qxzllY8b66lQr28GMRKwXpPZns74IFHBbCNS9jPef5hfzvnC+XIVMxP5vWOJ BNOCpn1O1rGvFTfbkGQET5VSTKlql23owCz6hRTwpVSHYn/Te7vKuZI1aIPiGOzI YCPFjIvPVtnbgnDa+98Ax/K58rgP/Pp72Z458xn6totqr88VfqqweVTiLFLxJ7jh YwQ1yI6+BQSLQ2vYPkFuuVJ6cjOV2N0FjpW90zaedsvdDwxwmLwnVVefNf8kdAkH HzhB71WEqtt59SuZQqS7WpDvNWK8CvBBE2yV2iUAX7uUHIP8sZeOHZydsVQKmlz/ oKQ6S8CXiJ3YlwIUMnn4GSGM0ebLkhKhn0brtVT+4baVgofRw+Gzcoe2eGL/VSC/ 4yalMtpZLOZELjDDa7b/8tTeHr1U1+/RCex3uNaM+UK57Ego+gli8Ew5ZUq8RyDu 3suSZaZqWICjFZEZxamxCbkv/NrVuHTTmDms3D4hFq/iLx01h8kvhPjDd+VNxDyH yn6tl6dp3e00QBUGqg5rdx0JkhOTkZCaE3nIKFbwBtijKyRO8LQ3zKIlvfL3b2Ac cnDvvX9Sm5VVx7NGfoKa =Qj8R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
