installing xampp and tomcat

[bibiki]

hey there,
I am trying to set up tomcat on my computer (I am so new to this, I am not even sure I am explaining my problem correctly.)

I was told to install XAMPP. I did using the installer that appache's web site offers. It says that the installer installs tomcat too. I can see the tomcat folder inside my XAMPP folder, but when I check for status on localhost index page, I see 'tomcat deactivated'. and when I check for status under J2EE section I see the following:

Warning! Tomcat is not started on port 8080.

one of the links in this page is: http://127.0.0.1:8080/ . when I click on it, the page that comes up says: Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at 127.0.0.1:8080.

What is wrong? what am I missing. I kindly ask you to help me. thank you in advance!

[bibiki]

alright, I have my issue solved. the problem was:
after runing startup.bat (because I assumed the cmd windows should close itself), I'd assume that something was wrong since the cmd would not close, and I'd close it. no wonder it did not work then :)

[kc_s008]

You need to run manually following bat file
c:\xamppTomcat\catalina_start

or

put

catalina_start
catalina_stop

in XAMPP control panel start up