Installing Corticon Runtime on Tomcat
- Last Updated: October 26, 2026
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- Corticon
- Version 7.3
- Documentation
Prior releases of Corticon included a bundled distribution of Tomcat. The following instructions provide guidelines for installing Corticon Server and WebConsole into Tomcat to create a runtime environment similar to previous Corticon releases. These examples are specific to Windows installations. The following topics on Linux installations follow a similar pattern. For additional details, refer to the Corticon Deployment Guide.
Folder Setup
The steps below assume the following file system folder setup:
C:\Java_21: Java 21 installationC:\Tomcat_10: Apache Tomcat 10 installationC:\Progress\Corticon 7.3: Default Corticon 7.3 installationC:\Corticon_Work_7.3: User chosen work directory for Corticon Server
Change the folder locations as needed in each step to match your configuration.
Install Tomcat
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Download the binary distribution of Apache Tomcat for your platform from: https://tomcat.apache.org/download-10.cgi For Windows, download "64-bit Windows zip".
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Extract the downloaded files to:
C:\Tomcat_10 -
Deploy Corticon Server to Tomcat Edit the file:
C:\Tomcat_10\bin\startup.bat, and then add the lines:set JAVA_HOME="C:\Java_21" set CATALINA_OPTS=-DCORTICON_HOME="%CATALINA_HOME%" -DCORTICON_WORK_DIR="C:\Corticon_Work_7.3\" set JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -
Copy the file:
C:\Progress\Corticon 7.3\Server\Deploy\Tomcat\10\axis.warto:
C:\Tomcat_10\webapps\axis.war -
Configure Tomcat Ports (Optional) Edit the file:
C:\Tomcat_10\conf\server.xmland then set the preferred ports (the port settings here reflect those previously used by Corticon):
<Connector port="8850" protocol="HTTP/1.1" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8851" maxParameterCount="1000"/> <Server port="8852" shutdown="SHUTDOWN"> -
Restart Tomcat. If Tomcat is running, stop it.
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Start Tomcat by running:
C:\Tomcat_10\bin\startup.bat.