Just a quick note about indentation. You can show your code between <pre></pre> tags, with indents, and it'll make it a LOT easier for people to read & understand here.
I started off by installing J2EE 1.4 SDK 2005Q1 UR1 and took the option to have the installer set my class path.
Then I went to jakarta.com and started reading.
There were a blinding number of options on the download page.
Tomcat's own installation instructions state: "This section of the documentation applies to procrun 1.0, and is now obsolete. "
It didn't seem to have actual instructions on what to click or type where anyway. I'm sure the instructions are great if you know what you're doing. I don't yet.
I've tried following Sun's "jGuru: Installing and Configuring Tomcat" instructions. I downloaded 5.5.8-alpha Deployer tar.gz and deployed it to my C: drive. I know my class path already points to my java interpreter. I set JAVA_HOME as follows: SET JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_01
Sun's documentation says "Change to the bin directory and start Tomcat using the command-line command startup."
"jakarta-tomcat-5.5.8-deployer" directory doesn't have a bin directory. All of my java directories have bin directories in them. None has a startup.exe. I thought that maybe the deployer directory would have an installer program that needed to be run. It doesn't.
Is there a "dummies" version of how to install Tomcat anywhere? I'm such a user with this stuff.
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