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webMathematica User Guide 37Microsoft Servers and TomcatIf you wish to deploy Microsoft PWS or IIS as your web server, it is possible to use them withTomcat as a servlet container.Tomcat comes with instructions for configuring it as a servlet container for IIS and PWS. Theconfiguration has to be done manually, and, although straightforward, it has a number of stepsthat must be followed carefully and involves editing the Windows registry by hand.You need to make sure that you edit the workers.properties file, found in the Tomcat confdirectory, to give values to workers.tomcat_home and workers.java_home. The requiredsettings will be clear from the description in the file.TestingYou should now be able to restart your server and connect to webMathematica. Note that youmay have to modify the URLs shown in this document to connect to your servlet container; forexample, the URL may require a different port number than 8080, which is chosen as thedefault port for direct access to Apache Tomcat. The URL that you use to test your servletcontainer will show the correct URL to use for webMathematica. In addition, you should notethat the URL is case sensitive, so make sure to type in capitals as they appear.You may first want to connect to the webMathematica front page via http://localhost:8080/webMathematica; this should look similar to the picture below. It contains links to examples,documentation, templates, images, and external references.