Tomcat introduction

From the Wikipedia: "Apache Tomcat is a Servlet container developed by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Tomcat implements the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages (JSP) specifications from Sun Microsystems, and provides a "pure Java" HTTP web server environment for Java code to run."

Tomcat and InterMine

Tomcat is the recommended Servlet container for an InterMine webapp.

Starting Tomcat

If Tomcat isn't already running, start it with this command:

# from tomcat/bin
./startup.sh

Visit the Tomcat manager at http://localhost:8080/. The username and password required to access the manager are webapp.manager and webapp.password as specified in malariamine.properties.

Stopping Tomcat

To stop Tomcat, run this command:

# from tomcat/bin
./shutdown.sh