Time for action – installing and starting Apache Tomcat

We will now download and install Tomcat. Later on, we will initiate it and test it with a web browser.

1. We will download Tomcat Version 7. To do so, we will direct our web browser to the following URL:

   http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi

   Once there, we will find a page similar to the following screenshot:

   

   Note

   It is possible that a newer version of Tomcat will be available by the time you read this book. If that is the case, please use the Quick Navigation section of the web page and select the correct version. We recommend downloading Version 7.x to avoid possible inconveniences and incompatibilities with the rest of the exercises of this chapter.

2. Next, we will download the file corresponding to our operating system:
   • If on a Linux environment, we will choose .tar.gz
   • If on a Windows environment, we will choose .zip
3. We will now install Tomcat. We will choose a folder and uncompress the file we just downloaded. As a result, we will...