Environment setup for JSP

The environment setup for JSP mainly consists of 3 steps:

1. Setting up the JDK.
2. Setting up the webserver (Tomcat).
3. Starting tomcat server.

All the steps are discussed in details below:

1. Setting up Java Development Kit :
   Step 1: This step involves downloading JDK from Download JDK.
   Step 2: Setting up the PATH environment variable appropriately. For windows:

   right-click on My Computer->
   select Properties->
   Click on Advanced System setting ->
   Click on Environment Variables ->
   Then, update the PATH value5 and press the OK button.
   

   On LINUX system if the SDK is installed in /usr/local/jdk-9.0.4 and you use the C shell, you will put the following into your .cshrc file.

   setenv PATH /usr/local/jdk-9.0.4/bin:$PATH
   setenv JAVA_HOME /usr/local/jdk-9.0.4
   

2. Setting up Web Server: Tomcat
   Apache Tomcat is an open source software implementation of the JavaServer Pages and Servlet technologies and can act as a server for testing JSP, and can be integrated with the Apache Web Server.
   Here are the steps to set up Tomcat on your machine.
   Step 1: Download latest version of Tomcat from here.
   Step 2: After downloading, unpack the binary distribution into a suitable location.
   Step 3: After unpacking create CATALINA_HOME environment variable pointing to the same locations.
3. Start tomcat Server :
   Starting on Windows Machine by using following command :

   %CATALINA_HOME%\bin\startup.bat
   

   Starting on Linux Machine by using the following command :

   $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
   

   After successful installation and successfully setup the paths for the server. We can see the home page of tomcat web server by using http://localhost:8080/ on your browser.

   

This is the final page that you will see in your browser. If you are not getting the required result then start again from tomcat installation process.