It appears these two downloads are somewhat mutually exclusive in the sense that if I download and install the 32-bit/64-bit Windows Service Installer version and the 64-bit Windows zip file the startup.bat file in the 64-bit Windows zip file version will not run or interact with the 32-bit/64-bit Windows Service Installer tomcat instance. Remember I am a neophyte when it comes to tomcat and web servers. Then all the above answers make sense and are rather trivial. This zip file has all the common startup/shutdown scripts, batch files for windows, including catalina.bat/.sh etc. I did not realize there was a separate download the 64-bit Windows zip file that has a tomcat server and all the standard array of cmd line tomcat management tools.

It is probably evident to anyone with a shred of experience with services and such. I am embarrassed to say how simple it is. So nearly all the answers I have perused were not immediately applicable as many said, 'go to bin and issue the startup.bat file' I am a neophyte but not so much to not be able to look into the bin and start such a file it is existed!įor my simple purposes (again remember that I am a neophyte at tomcat and even web servers) all I wanted to do was to be able to startup and shutdown the tomcat server from a cmd prompt window. With this setup I had some frustrations as setting parameters is done via the gui widget - very helpful I might add. And no %CATALINA_HOME% or %TOMCAT_HOME% etc. My colleagues were surprised that I did not have a catalina.bat etc. The bin that is created for that download is small - only 4 files. I only downloaded the 32-bit/64-bit Windows Service Installer. I did not have a startup.bat or any bat files. In particular I don't work with services too much. I consider myself somewhat proficient user of windows, but I guess not proficient enough. Even more I am rather new to web servers in general.

I ran into the same issue and it was likely due to a combination of being a complete neophyte when it comes to tomcat. There are a lot of answers here, but many overlook a few points.

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