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- Unlike Eclipse, the downloaded Tomcat is a self-installing executable.
- Leave the port at 8080 and the username/password empty
- Your JRE will may be auto detected. Mine was: If not, it will probably be a JDK or JRE under C:\Program Files\Java\jre\
- Do not use default install folder. Folders under c:\Program Files are subject to special access control that creates problems later.
To inform the Cygwin environment of where Tomcat is, update your Windows environment variables.
- Define CATALINA_HOME as a Windows System environment variable, and give it the value of the install folder for Tomcat. E.g.
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6Tomcat6.0
- Unlike JAVA, which an environment variable named after the product to locate its install directory (JAVA_HOME), Tomcat uses an environment variable named after the servlet container component (CATALINA_HOME)
- Add '%CATALINA_HOME%\bin' to the Windows System environment variable PATH
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