About installing on Tomcat 6.0

You can deploy Studio as a standalone application on Tomcat 6.0.

These instructions assume that you have obtained the apache-tomcat-6.0.x.zip or tar.gz file from the Apache Foundation, but that you have not yet installed it.

The rest of these instructions refer to the installation directory as apache-tomcat-6.0.x, leaving off the minor version number.

Your also must have downloaded the Studio standalone package for Windows or Linux. The standalone package contains the following files:
At a high level, to install and deploy Studio on Tomcat 6.0:
  1. Install Tomcat and deploy the Studio dependency libraries.
  2. Modify the Tomcat configuration to work with Studio.
  3. Deploy and start Studio.
Note: The examples in these instructions are based on a Windows server Tomcat deployment. If you install on Linux, the steps are similar, although you must substitute Linux binaries and paths. Significant differences are called out.