How To Create Multiple Instences of Tomcat 9

Tomcat 9 Multiple Instences

If you want to deploye multiple web applications on a single tomcat server then follow these simple steps.

1. First we need a fresh installation of Tomcat Server 9. 


2. Now create a directory like [C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\tomcat-1].


3. Copy bin, conf, logs, webapps and work directories from tomcat’s root [C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 9.0].


4. Now first configure server.xml for new instance (tomcat-1) [C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\tomcat-1\conf\server.xml].


5. Deploy your web app in webapps directory [C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\tomcat-1\webapps\MyWebApp].


6. Now you need to install your tomcat instance as a windows service.


7. Move into [C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\tomcat-1\bin] directory and rename Tomcat9.exe to tomcat-1.exe and Tomcat9w.exe to tomcat-1w.exe


8. Open cmd at path [C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\tomcat-1\bin] and run this command.


9. tomcat-1.exe //IS//tomcat-1


10. After this you will see your newly created tomcat-1 windows service in Windows Task Manager.


11. Now run tomcat-1w.exe and configure it like your root tomcat properties.