How to Start Apache Tomcat using XAMPP?

In this tutorial, you will learn how to Start the Apache Tomcat server using the XAMPP Control panel.

Apache Tomcat server is an open-source web server and servlet container developed by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). It implements the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) specifications and provides a web server environment for Java code to run.

Steps to Start Apache Tomcat

Lunch XAMPP Control Panel.

Click on the Start button against the Tomcat component in the control panel.

This will start the server on the machine. You should see the following log in the console window:

[Tomcat] Attempting to start Tomcat app…

To verify, open a web browser and navigate to the following URL:

http://localhost:8080/

You can find the ports against the component in the XAMPP control panel.