Tomcat
From Informatics
- Download tomcat from http://tomcat.apache.org/index.html. I prefer downloading the binaries (.zip file) as opposed to the installer (.exe). Unzip to a location of your choice.
- Set the environmental variable CATALINA_HOME and add %CATALINA_HOME%\bin to your path (Windows).
Under Linux, this can be done in your .bash_profile, and would look like
set CATALINA_HOME=<your path to the tomcat installation> set Path=Path:$CATALINA_HOME/bin
- Open %CATALINA_HOME%\conf and edit tomcat_users.xml to contain the following:
<role rolename="admin"/> <role rolename="manager"/> <user username="role1" password="tomcat" roles="admin,manager"/>
Accessing Files Outside the Webapp
If your files is outside the Webapp but you would like these files can be accessed through http protocal, you can create a context node with docBase attribute that points to your file directory. This can be done in a context fragment file under $CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost.
