Apache Tomcat tips for servers

1. Click on the "Archives" on the "Quick Navigation" and download tomcat from Apache's web site. Other wise your downloading from an unknown third party mirror.
2. ALL WAYS scan stuff you download for viruses.
3. If this is a system that you are putting on the Internet NEVER put your web server on your boot or OS partition of your hard drive.
4. The standard name for the location of Java is "JAVA_HOME" not "JRE_HOME".
5. If this is on a server you should use the windows version, because it will add a service to windows to startup tomcat when windows starts.
6. NEVER run tomcat as a front end web server on the Internet. Use either Apache HTTP server, or IIS.
7. Run the tomcat service as a user that doesn't have any administrative, or root permissions.