As for autoexec.bat, I'd need to see how you are setting it to diagnose the problem there.
If you start Tomcat, that window should remain open. If it's closing very quickly and you can't read the error, start a DOS window first and go to <tomcatHome>/bin/ and type startup. What is the error you get? You'll need to be more specific than "something something"
As for the fp server (FrontPage server?), if you are talking about PWS from Microsoft, this should not conflict with Tomcat, as it runs on port 80, and tomcat on port 8080. (So if you are
testing if your Tomcat is running,
you should be hitting
http://localhost:8080/ )
Also, because you don't have Apache running on port 80, which can redirect to Tomcat when appropriate, you'll need to use Tomcat for your webserver as well... what this means is that whatever you are writing for Tomcat, you MUST specify :8080 after localhost.
[This message has been edited by Mike Curwen (edited October 22, 2001).]