Installing Apache tomcat and starting Geoserver

Hi all,

We will be learning how to start geoserver by installing Apache tomcat on a windows operating  system.

1. Installation of Apache tomcat :

 go to the official website of Apache tomcat /Download by using the following link :

  http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi   and download the binary file  as per your operating system .. for example i have downloaded the following version:

64-bit Windows zip (pgp, md5)





extract the  apache-tomcat-6.0.36 from the zip folder and then place it in the C:\ Drive.

2. Download  Java JDK  and set the path in environmental varaibles dialogue box as shown below :





you can access this window by pressing windows screen key on the keyboard and pause key simultaneously.
- go to the advanced systems settings tab

 and then to the environmental variables tab
 and add the java_home variable and the path in user variable dialogue box.

there is another method of adding the JAVA_HOME but we need to set the path every time we want to start the Apache tomcat  as shown below :

- go to search programs and then type in run  and then cmd to get the command prompt window as shown below .
- then change the directory to the location where we have kept Apache tomcat , for example my path is C:\apache-tomcat.
- once we are in c:\apache-tomcat , we need to set the JAVA_HOME by giving the path to the jdk directory(my jdk direcory is stored inC:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_09) , as shown below.




*******NOTE******* if we are following the second method we need to follow these steps everytime we go ahead and start apache tomcat.
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****GEOSERVER***
 We need to download the geoserver web archive  by going to the following website :

   http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Stable





we need to extract the geoserver.war file from the archive and place it in Apache Tomcat /webapps directory ( C:\apache-tomcat\webapps)



once this done

we need to go to the command prompt  and change the directory to  C:\apache-tomcat\bin and then give the command as startup.bat



 you would get a java applet which shows that geoserver is starting as shown below



- once this is done we need to go ahead and type in localhost:8080/geoserver in the address bar to start using the geoserver. you would get a webpage as shown below :



to loginto geoserver we need to give in the

username :admin
password :geoserver