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I downloaded and installed the software on my laptop and is working fine. Now I want to transfer it to the server hosting our domain. The server only has mysql installed. I need to install jdk and tomcat. Can you please tell where I should install it. ( I mean which directory) and also how to access the application . I mean in my laptop i access it through http://localhost:8080/ After installing it in the server of the hosting company what should be the adress. Thanks a lot for your help.
Rasmi.
Hmmm.. Well.. Technically the JDK and Tomcat can really go anyplace you like. If your domain name is "someplace.com" then the URL would be http://www.someplace.com:8080/ or http://someplace.com:8080/
The problem you could have is with the contract you are in with company hosting your domain. You MUST run Web Time Entry from a servlet web container (like Tomcat – not Apache) and most hosting companies don't allow you to run another web container or server on another port. "Out of the box" Tomcat runs on port 8080. And even if they did - some don't give any shell access. If you don't have access to a shell then you can't start Tomcat. You really need to talk to the people hosting your domain and see what the limits are in your contract.
If your hosting company won't let you run it -- then you should really think about hosting the it yourself on the internet. It's really is not a lot of work or cost. Get a cheap used server (really something salvage would do it or under $200) and a host name from a DNS provider. These days you don’t even need static IP address and many DNS providers offer free host names. (like https://www.dyndns.com/\)
I would also think about setting up Tomcat with SSL if you are doing things over the internet (also very easy to do!). I can assist you with setting this things up if you are kinda new to this stuff. (For a reasonable donation to our project)