The Tomcat download site classifies downloads into release builds, milestone builds, and nightly builds. The release builds are the stable versions of the Tomcat product. Once you get to the download site, scroll to the release builds section and select Tomcat 3.2.1 (or whatever is the most current release being offered). Figure C-1 shows the screen containing the download files. Figure C-1: Tomcat release 3.2 download page From this page you can select a Tomcat version for Windows 9x, Windows NT, or Windows 2000, or for various UNIX flavors. Assuming you are using some version of Windows, select jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1.zip to commence the download. After a successful download, you should have a zip file called jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1.zip on your hard drive. Installing Tomcat Installing Tomcat is a straightforward process. Just open the zip file and extract all contained files in the archive. Note You need a copy of PKZIP to extract the contained files. You can get a copy at http://www.pkware.com/. This site has compression/extraction tools for several operating systems. You may want to create a directory at your disk root; for example, use d:tomcat32 to hold all the Tomcat files. After extracting the files, your directory structure should resemble that shown in Figure C-2.
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