Installing Tomcat Server

Ah.. good tutorial.
And err.... you can download it from various sources from here
I have played with both the 32-bit windows Installer(search for 32-bit/64-bit Windows Service Installer) and the zipped version(named 32-bit Windows zip)
here are the basic differences:
the installer sets up everything for you, and as Rokon said above, it is very easy to use too!
but in case of the zipped file, at first you need to set up Environment variables, and then use it. And guess what? it doesn't offer any task bar menu.. or gui to control it.

Anyway, even after you install it, there is one little problem.
how?
Say, you want to use the tomcat manager. click on the Tomcat Manager Under Administrator menu. it wants username and password!!
where are you supposed to find that, hmm?

Well here is the deal. say, you have installed tomcat apache under C: drive.
if the installation directory is C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.24 , go there, search for folder named conf.
there is a file called tomcat-users.xml
[You should create a backup of this file in case you mess everything up]
open it, you will see something like

Code:




<tomcat-users>
<!--
  <role
rolename="tomcat"/>
  <role rolename="role1"/>
  <user
 username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat"/>
  <user
username="both" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,role1"/>
 
<user username="role1" password="tomcat" roles="role1"/>
-->


</tomcat-users>








change it to:

Code:




<tomcat-users>
<!--
  <role
rolename="tomcat"/>
  <role rolename="role1"/>
  <user
 username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat"/>
  <user
username="both" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,role1"/>
 
<user username="role1" password="tomcat" roles="role1"/>
-->
<role
 rolename="manager"/>
<user username="tomcat" password="s3cret"
 roles="manager"/>

</tomcat-users>












Now when you want to login as manager , simply use tomcat as username and s3cret as password.

And if you want to login as admin, use this code:

Code:


<tomcat-users>
<user name="whatevername" password="whateverpassword" roles="admin,manager" /><!--
  <role rolename="tomcat"/>
  <role rolename="role1"/>
  <user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat"/>
  <user username="both" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,role1"/>
  <user username="role1" password="tomcat" roles="role1"/>
-->
</tomcat-users>



now simply use whatevername as name and whateverpassword as password to login as admin
Hope that helps