School of Computing

School of Computing Systems Support

For all systems support queries, please contact cs-syshelp@kent.ac.uk

Basic Instructions on the Use of Tomcat

To run servlets using tomcat on the public PC's, you will need to do :

a) map \\raptor\files to be your x:
b) create a directory x:\home\public_html
c) create a directory x:\home\public_html\webapp
d) create a directory x:\home\public_html\webapp\WEB-INF
e) create a directory x:\home\public_html\webapp\WEB-INF\classes
f) Drop the class files into x:\home\public_html\webapp\WEB-INF\classes or any relevent place as per the servlet spec.
g) Start the servlet server. This is under departmental software->computer science->apache tomcat

To then review your servlet you just need to goto
http://localhost:8080/tomcat/servlet/ServletName

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Last Updated: 08/11/2011 21:00