Where to Go for Help

While we’ve done our best to ensure that these documents are clearly written and easy to understand, we may have missed something. Provided below are various web sites and mailing lists in case you get stuck.

Keep in mind that some of the issues and solutions vary between the major versions of Tomcat. As you search around the web, there will be some documentation that is not relevant to Tomcat 8, but only to earlier versions.

• Current document – most documents will list potential hangups. Be sure to fully read the relevant documentation as it will save you much time and effort. There’s nothing like scouring the web only to find out that the answer was right in front of you all along!
• Tomcat FAQ
• Tomcat WIKI
• Tomcat FAQ at jGuru
• Tomcat mailing list archives – numerous sites archive the Tomcat mailing lists. Since the links change over time, clicking here will search Google.
• The TOMCAT-USER mailing list, which you can subscribe to here. If you don’t get a reply, then there’s a good chance that your question was probably answered in the list archives or one of the FAQs. Although questions about web application development in general are sometimes asked and answered, please focus your questions on Tomcat-specific issues.
• The TOMCAT-DEV mailing list, which you can subscribe to here. This list is reserved for discussions about the development of Tomcat itself. Questions about Tomcat configuration, and the problems you run into while developing and running applications, will normally be more appropriate on the TOMCAT-USER list instead.

And, if you think something should be in the docs, by all means let us know on the TOMCAT-DEV list.