**Installing TOMCAT & Configuring:**
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Install the tomcat from [here][1] :select the required version from download.

Setting the environment variable:

System Properties->Advanced->Environment Variables

> Variable Name : CATALINA_HOME 
> Variable Value: C:\TOMCAT 7.0.10 (your tomcat directory)

Check your port number in Tomcat--->conf--->server.xml

<!-- begin snippet: js hide: false -->

<!-- language: lang-html -->

 <Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" 
 connectionTimeout="20000" 
 redirectPort="8443" />

<!-- end snippet -->

Please note that your oracle is having a default port number 8080. Make sure no conflicts are there

Start the server(Go to the bin folder of tomcat and use startup.bat in windows and startup.sh for linux)

 
Then try the url in any web browser :

<!-- begin snippet: js hide: false -->

<!-- language: lang-html -->

 http://localhost:portNumber/

<!-- end snippet -->

If you get the tomcat homepage your tomcat is properly configured.


**Deploying application war File :**
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	Step 1:stop tomcat
	Step 2:move your war into "[tomcat install dir]/webapps"
	Step 3:start tomcat

Then try to access your web application as explained in the [first answer][2] in any web browser


 [1]: http://tomcat.apache.org/
 [2]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/25562779/3988992