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Assign the appropriate ports and login credentials for tomcat. Credentials will be used to deploy web applications on the server, while the assigned port no. to Http/1.1 Connector port will be used to access the web apps deployed on the tomcat server. Hence, these ports shouldn’t be blocked by any service.
If JRE was previously installed successfully, the following page will show the jre6/7 path noted earlier by default.
Choose the location “c:\apache-tomcat-6.0” or “c:\apache-tomcat-7.0” instead of default location.
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After completing all the Apache Tomcat installation steps, start browser. Type in http://localhost:< Connector Port> in address bar and Go. If installation was successful, you should be able to see the Apache Tomcat Homepage.
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