How to deploy Web project using apache tomcat

1) Install tomcat, which requires the pre-installation of jdk.

2) Set variables,

                JAVA_HOME=c:\programfiles\java\jdk(path of installation of jdk)

                PATH     ="c:\programfiles\java\jdk\bin";%PATH%

3)During installation of tomcat,give the jre path as "c:\programfiles\java\jre"

4)During installation of tomcat,the port number would be '8080'.

We can change it later by going to 'server.xml' file in tomcat folder and change the port number at the code as highlighted in the below image and replace the file.

5) Now paste the WebRoot  folder of the web project into the webapps folder  of tomcat\webapps.

Note: The WebRoot is the folder with .jsp,servlets,meta-inf and other files.

a)copy webroot folder

b))pasting in

8)now start the tomcat server by going to tomcat.exe in tomcat\bin folder.

 http://localhost:port_num_in_server.xml/foldername_copied _into_webapps. It will be executed.