Tomcat Installation

Either add define your virtual hosts in

C:\server\tomcat 5.5\conf\Catalina\virtualhost1\virtualhost1.xml
C:\server\tomcat 5.5\conf\Catalina\virtualhost2\virtualhost2.xml

or define them in:

C:\server\tomcat 5.5\conf\server.xml

If Tomcat is started as "Local system account", it won't be able to access the shared resource.

In order to be able to access the shared resource
Change "Local system account" to "Tomcat"

Create a group "Tomcat-group" and add the Tomcat user to this group

At startup, Tomcat complained with the following error:

"Cannot rename original file to C:\server\Tomcat 5.5\conf
\tomcat-users.xml.old"

Now change the permissions for the directory C:\server

Properties -> security -> advanced options

"Uncheck allow inherited permissions…" -> "Copy"
"Replace permission entries…" -> Apply