Tomcat JSP Webapps

Tomcat is a service that supports java servlets and JSP.

Our tomcat server is available only for student course work.
Tomcat accounts expire one term after the end of the class.

You must register for a tomcat account.

To deploy a webapp, use our Tomcat Manager.
This page requires you to set a password:

After you register, CSPP student webapps will go in:
/stage/tomcat-cspp/my-cs-username

CMSC student webapps go here:
/stage/tomcat-cmsc/my-cs-username.

A quick way to get started is to copy the jsp-examples collection:
(use cspp or cmsc as appropriate)

  1. cd /stage/tomcat-cspp/my-cs-username

  2. cp -rp ../jsp-examples .

  3. Install this webapp with our Tomcat Manager (see above)
    • Context: /MyContext
    • Path: /my-cs-username/jsp-examples

  4. View the webapps in a browser:
    http://tomcat-cspp.cs.uchicago.edu:8180/MyContext/
Log files are in /stage/tomcat-cspp-logs

When compiling java code, you may require libraries found in these directories:
/stage/tomcat-cspp-share/
/stage/tomcat-cspp-shared/
/stage/tomcat-cspp-java/
/opt/java2/jdk1.5.0_06/lib/

For additional assistance with this service, email techstaff@cs.uchicago.edu