Setting up

Softwares required:

1) Eclipse IDE

2) Apache tomcat server

Steps to setup :

1) Create new server.

2) Select apache

3) Select tomcat version that is installed in your system.

4) Browse the directory and select JAVA SE to remove default JRE.

5) Select tomcat folder from your system.

6) Click on finish.

7) Right click on server and select start.

8) Check logs: server startup in 8787s

9) Server state will change from stopped to started.

10) Now check by hitting the url: localhost:8080/

Here localhost: is the IP address of your local machine and 8080 is the port on which tomcat listen requests.

Possible Output 1 :

Possible Output 2 :

11) In case of output 1 i.e. error 404 do the below steps, first find the server in the short view or in others (refer to below 3 screenshots)

12) Double click on the server : Tomcat v8.x Server at localhost [started,sync...]

13) Choose the second option i.e. :

"use tomcat installation [takes control of tomcat installation]" and save.

14) Right click on server and select properties.

15) Click on switch location and select "apply and close".

16) Now retry by hitting the url (localhost:8080/) again.