To start with, you will need to download the latest community version of the Liferay Tomcat bundle from the download page of Liferay (http://www.liferay.com/downloads/liferay-portal/available-releases). At the time of writing, the latest Liferay bundle that is available is Liferay 6.0.6. Next, follow these steps to configure Tomcat with Liferay:
Extract the zip file that you downloaded to the folder called
bundles
.We will call the extracted folder
LIFERAY_HOME
.There will be a
tomcat
folder insideLIFERAY_HOME
which we will refer to asTOMCAT_HOME
.Navigate to
TOMCAT_HOME/bin
and double-click onstartup.bat
.Your server should start up properly and you should see the console as shown in the following screenshot:
Open a browser and type
http://localhost:8080
; this will open the Liferay home page.