So go to Start | Programs | Apache Tomcat 4.1 and click on Start Tomcat. A Command Prompt window will appear, and this will be used to log the activities of the tomcat webserver program. So this window will be present whilst tomcat is running.

An alternative way of starting tomcat is to use a Command Prompt window and execute commands like:

0030: set CATALINA_HOME=E:\Program Files\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1
0031: set JAVA_HOME=e:\j2sdk1.4.1_02
0032: "%CATALINA_HOME%\bin\startup"

If your PC needs to use a proxy server to get to the internet, before executing these commands you will also need to execute a command like:

0033: set CATALINA_OPTS=-Dhttp.proxyHost=proxy.site.com -Dhttp.proxyPort=8080