Installing the Tomcat Software
This section describes how to download and install the Tomcat servlet web server software. Note that there is a FAQ at http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/faq. To get started on your first servlet, follow these steps.
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Go to http://jakarta.apache.org, follow the links to the download page, and download the binary of the most recent version of Tomcat 5. Get the right version for your system. For Windows this is an exe file. It's a 10MB download.
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Unpack the file you downloaded (if a zip or gz file). Run the file if it is an exe file. You'll need to provide the admin password on Windows. Accepting all the defaults works fine, although it is a Very Good Idea to install into a directory called “\tc5” instead of ...
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