Once you get things up and running, you may want to run Tomcat as a service (and not have to deal with starting and stopping it or having to look at that silly MS-DOS window Tomcat runs in).
On a windows server, you can do the following:
1 - Stop any Tomcat servers that are running.
2 - Download the latest windows installer for Tomcat at http://tomcat.apache.org/ The Windows binary installer comes with all the stuff needed for a Windows service. Note - Get the Windows Executable - NOT the zip file or the tar ball! Run the executable to install the Tomcat service.
3 - Copy the ../webapps/Root folder (and all it's sub-folders and files) into the ../webapps folder within the version of Tomcat you just installed. (from item 2). You may need to root around a little to find it but you will have a new Tomcat folder that has a webapps subfolder. Once you find it, copy the root folder into webapps
4 - Edit ALL the file paths in ../webapps/Root/Web-INF/ConfigFile1.xml and ../webapps/Root/Web-INF/web.xml - They need to point to the new location.
5 - Start the Tomcat service, and you should be off to the races!
Good luck,
Paul.
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Once you get things up and running, you may want to run Tomcat as a service (and not have to deal with starting and stopping it or having to look at that silly MS-DOS window Tomcat runs in).
On a windows server, you can do the following:
1 - Stop any Tomcat servers that are running.
2 - Download the latest windows installer for Tomcat at http://tomcat.apache.org/ The Windows binary installer comes with all the stuff needed for a Windows service. Note - Get the Windows Executable - NOT the zip file or the tar ball! Run the executable to install the Tomcat service.
3 - Copy the ../webapps/Root folder (and all it's sub-folders and files) into the ../webapps folder within the version of Tomcat you just installed. (from item 2). You may need to root around a little to find it but you will have a new Tomcat folder that has a webapps subfolder. Once you find it, copy the root folder into webapps
4 - Edit ALL the file paths in ../webapps/Root/Web-INF/ConfigFile1.xml and ../webapps/Root/Web-INF/web.xml - They need to point to the new location.
5 - Start the Tomcat service, and you should be off to the races!
Good luck,
Paul.