- go to http://tomcat.apache.org/ and go to the download page of the version 4.1.36
 -   download the Binary distribution (Full distributions for JDK 1.2 or later) zip file
 -  unzip to c:\jakarta-tomacat-4.1.31
 - set environmental path with variable "JAVA_HOME" and value "the java sdk path"
 
run "startup" to run tomcat
 run "shutdown" to close tomcat
reference installation note: