Installing Apache Tomcat

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Last updated: Aug 12, 2016
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Introduction

This how-to guide contains instructions for installing Apache Tomcat on your computer. Apache Tomcat is a simple web server for HTML and JavaScript, and a Servlet container for Java-base applications.

Java JRE

Apache Tomcat requires a Java JRE to be installed on the same machine that Tomcat is installed on.  

Java Downloadhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

Tomcat

Apache Tomcat is among the most popular web servers in the world.  Tomcat can be used to serve HTML files, JavaScript and images.  Tomcat also contains a servlet container for Java-based applications.

Apache HTTPhttp://tomcat.apache.org/
Documentationhttp://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.5-doc/index.html
Windows Installationhttp://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.5-doc/setup.html#Windows
Linux/Machttp://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.5-doc/setup.html#Unix_daemon