Follow these steps to start / stop tomcat on a Windows system.
Open Command prompt, Use the cd command to navigate to the “bin” directory within the Tomcat installation directory.
Windows:
To Start : startup or startup.bat
To Stop : shutdown or shutdown.bat
Linux Using Terminal:
to start : ./startup.sh
to stop : ./shutdown.sh
To view Running Tomcat Log
tomcat/logs :$ tail -f catalina.out or tail -f logs/catalina.out
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