Installation of Tomcat starts with downloading Tomcat, from the Apache site: http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi
After downloading the zip-file, I extracted it to E:\ (the location is of your own choosing though).
Next I turn to NetBeans to configure Tomcat 6.0.36 as a new server.
Open the Tools menu and select the option Servers:
The list of currently configured servers appears. In the left side panel select server>>Add Server.. option.
Select the type of Server to add and provide a name for it – just for reference within NetBeans.
Press Next.
Provide the location where this server instance is installed – the target directory for the extraction of Tomcat 6.0.36. Also provide credentials for a Tomcat Administrator account ( in my case I used admin/admin).
Press Finish.
The newly configured Server is presented:
Press Close.
Now the Tomcat 6.0.36 Server can be started (and stopped, deployed to etc.) from within NetBeans. Open the Services Window (from the Window menu – option Services or using Ctrl-5).
The Tomcat output console appears in NetBeans:
After a few seconds, Tomcat is running. The home page can be accessed at http://server:port – in my case localhost and port 9988:
Tomcat is now ready to have applications deployed to it – for example from within NetBeans.
Note: in order for the admin user to also access the management console at http://localhost:9988/manager/html it is imperative that this user is granted the manager-gui role. This can be done by editing the tomcat-users.xml file in the conf directory of the Tomcat installation and adding this role. The entry for user admin would then become:
<user password=”admin” roles=”manager-script,admin,manager-gui” username=”admin”/>
