Installing Apache Tomcat

This section details the steps you take to install Apache Tomcat version 7.
Procedure
  1. Create a new folder on your computer (for example, ~/tomcat/).
  2. You need to install Apache Tomcat - click here to download the software. If the link fails, do a web search for "apache tomcat 7 download".
  3. Navigate to the Binary Distributions - Core section and click on zip or tar.gz.
  4. Extract the distribution files into the folder created in step 1.
    Note: Ensure that the option to retain folder names is selected.