Tomcat Configuration

The Apache Tomcat software is an open source implementation of the Jave Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language and Java WebSocket technologies.

Install Tomcat

check bin/setclasspath.bat “set JAVA_HOME = “ same with system environment variable JAVA_HOME.

Deploy Web Application

modify conf/server.xml

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<Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps" 
		unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true" 
		xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
	<Context path="/DEMO" docBase="D:\web_application\DEMO" debug="0" reloadable="false" />
</Host>

Deploy multiple Web applications in one Tomcat

modify conf/server.xml

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<Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps" 
		unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true" 
		xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
	<Context path="/DEMO" docBase="D:\web_application\DEMO" debug="0" reloadable="false" />
	<Context path="/DEMO1" docBase="D:\web_application\DEMO1" debug="0" reloadable="false" />
</Host>

Set different ‘webAppRootKey’ in Web.xml of every Web application

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<!-- define webAppRootKey in web.xml -->
    <context-param>
    <param-name>webAppRootKey</param-name>
    <param-value>demo.root</param-value>
    </context-param>

Run multiple Tomcats in one machine

To modify all ports in server.xml of Tomcat

Reference

Apache Tomcat