How to start Tomcat after installation?
To start Tomcat, you can follow these steps:
- Open the terminal or command prompt window.
- Navigate to the bin folder in the Tomcat installation directory. For example, if installed in /usr/local/tomcat, run the following command:
- Change directory to /usr/local/tomcat/bin.
- To start Tomcat, run the following command in the terminal.
- Start the Catalina server by running “./catalina.sh start” on Linux and macOS.
- Start catalina.bat on Windows platform.
- Tomcat will begin to start up and relevant logging information will be displayed in the terminal or command prompt window.
- Once Tomcat has been successfully started, you can access http://localhost:8080 in your browser to verify if Tomcat is running correctly.