A couple of things: The list in general strips attachments, so your log did not make it through.
The file httpd-2.2.16-win32-x86-openssl-0.9.8o.msi is for installing the Apache web server. The Apache web server is useful if you are planning to write PHP, Perl, Python, or Lisp/Scheme web sites. The file apache-tomcat-6.0.29.exe is the file for installing Apache Tomcat as a service on Windows. Tomcat is useful if you are planning to write Java web sites. If you run Tomcat on Windows as a service, the installer will figure everything out. The service installation is good enough for many uses. Documentation for service installation is here: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/setup.html#Windows Documentation for managing the service under Windows is here: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/windows-service-howto.html If you are going to actively develop Java web applications, then it's sometimes useful to install from the zip archive. Many IDEs use the batch files from the zip archive to start and stop Tomcat. Just unzip the archive in a directory that you have read/write access to. Add an environment variable called JAVA_HOME and point it to your installation of the Java JRE. On Windows the JRE is usually located in C:\Program Files\Java\jre6 (for the latest versions of Java). Now to run the unzipped version of Apache Tomcat, just open a DOS command window, navigate to the bin directory under where you unpacked the zip file. For example, if you unpacked the zip file in C:\, the bin subdirectory would be in C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.29\bin. Type startup (which will run startup.bat) to start Tomcat, and shutdown (which will run shutdown.bat) to stop Tomcat. To get your IDE to work with Tomcat, it's best to ask on the IDE mailing list (for example, NetBeans or Eclipse). On my XP system, I've installed both. I set the service startup to manual, and I point my IDE (NetBeans) to the zip file installation. . . . . just my two cents /mde/ ________________________________ From: Jonathan Camilleri <camilleri....@gmail.com> To: Tomcat <users@tomcat.apache.org> Sent: Wed, August 18, 2010 11:17:59 AM Subject: Installation problem [newbie] I ran into an installation problem, and, hope you can help me out with it. Initially I tried running the installer (httpd-2.2.16-win32-x86-openssl-0.9.8o.msi), on my laptop which runs Windows XP, and, I was prompted for the following: Network Domain - laptop is a standalone pc and field is mandatory; is a workaround available? Server Name - is this the name of the computer? Administrator's Email address - no problem :) The instructions available online do not seem to be relevant for this installation file, and, I was told that I should try downloading from another location. So I downloaded Apache Tomcat 6.0.29, which I assumed is the latest stable version, and, I am following RUNNING.txt for the installation. Even though I think I created the Java variables (section 1), when I run startup.bat, an error is displayed. See tomcat.installation.command.log which is attached to this email. Any ideas, please? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
