Monday, January 16, 2006

Tomcat webserver

When starting to create a dynamic website, first you can best setup yourself a webserver.
We have chosen for Tomcat, you can download the latest tomcat server from
http://tomcat.apache.org/
Installing this on a Windows environment is as easy as downloading the exe file and click on it.

After installing the tomcat server, you can find some useful files in the installation dir.
Note: we use tomcat 5.5, these files can change according to the version you use.
  • conf/server.xml: here you can set the location of your web applications.
    Standard location is under de webapp dir but in this file you can also specify some
    webapps on a other location.
  • conf/tomcat-users.xml: here you can specify the users on the server with there passwords.

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