Tomcat will help you in running jsp pages on your machine. It will create localhost on your machine & then you can run your jsp pages through that localhost server. So you must have to install tomcat if you want to run your jsp pages . Here are several steps to install the tomcat in order
to run your jsp pages.
NOTE:- You need to have java platform for tomcat .
Step 1: Download Tomcat . You can download the 7.0 version of tomcat from the link http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi , or by clicking here . After going to this page , choose 32-bit/64-bit Windows Service Installer from the core versions.
Step 2: Now simply install with this installer as you have installed other Windows programs. It will show you easy to use interface.
Step 3: Now go to start menu & go to Apache Tomcat & then select configure tomcat . If you are using windows vista/7 then you will get an error on clicking on configure tomcat. So you need to do is right click on configure tomcat & then select Run As Administrator & then press yes. Now a console will be opened. Now click on start to start the tomcat service , you can stop the tomcat service whenever you wish by the same console .
Step 4: Now open your web browser to check that whether your tomcat is working or not. In the address bar type localhost:8080 . If this url shows you a page of tomcat then your tomcat is working otherwise some problem is there.
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