Tomcat is a common web server software. When deploying a formal online project, change it to port 80 or 443 through configuration, because the HTTP protocol of the web browser adopts 80 and the HTTPS protocol adopts 443. When the server web application port is consistent with the browser protocol, the browser can omit the port number entered when accessing.

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Tomcat is the core project of Apache Software Foundation in Jakarta, which is jointly developed by Apache, Sun and other companies and individuals. Thanks to Sun's participation and support, the latest Servlet and JSP specifications can always be reflected in Tomcat.

Tomcat 5 supports the latest Servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0 specifications. Because of its advanced technology, stable performance and free, Tomcat is deeply loved by Java enthusiasts and recognized by some software developers, and has become a popular Web application server.

Tomcat server is a free and open source website? Application server is a lightweight application server, which is widely used in small and medium-sized systems and occasions with few concurrent users, and is the first choice for developing and debugging JSP programs.

For beginners, it can be considered that configuring an Apache server on the machine can be used to respond to the access request of HTML (an application under standard generalized markup language) pages.

Actually, tomcat is an extension of Apache server, but it runs independently at runtime, so when you run Tomcat, it actually runs as a process independent of Apache.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia -Tomcat