Using Tomcat on Windows

The Tomcat installation is in the following directory:

c:\tomcat

The Tomcat management web URL is

http://localhost:8080

You will need to update the login user by updating the following file:

C:\tomcat\apache-tomcat-(version)\conf\tomcat-users.xml

Before making any changes stop the Apache Tomcat service, from services in Administration tools

Towards the bottom of this file remove the quotation comments as highlighted in the following screenshot

Next update the roles and username with the following as per the following screenshot below:

In the example above i’ve used the username ‘admin’ and password ‘admin’ but you can create any username you like.

Make sure to leave </tomcat-users> as the last section as in the screenshot above.

After the changes have been made you can now start the Apache Tomcat service again.

Tomcat Documentation

Documentation on using Apache Tomcat on Windows can be found on their website :

https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/index.html

Tomcat Support

Any issues with installing this solution into any of the cloud platforms, please leave a message below or contact us directly

For any Tomcat support, take a look at the support section on their website:

https://tomcat.apache.org/findhelp.html

Tomcat Firewall Ports

Tomcat listens on port 8080 for HTTP, port 8443 for https and port 8009 for AJP

If you are using any firewalls, network security groups on any of the cloud platforms you will need to open these ports.

To setup AWS firewall rules refer to – AWS Security Groups

To setup Azure firewall rules refer to – Azure Network Security Groups

To setup Google GCP firewall rules refer to – Creating GCP Firewalls