Apache/Tomcat Installation on Linux
- Step 1: Downloads Apache Tomcat
- Step 2: Create a user called “tomcat” to own the Tomcat installation.
# useradd tomcat
- Step 3: Change user
# su – tomcat
- Step 4: FTP and untar Downloaded to tomcat user base directory
$ tar xzf /tmp/jdk-8u77-linux-x64.tar.gz
- Step 5: Set the following environment variables and append them to the “/home/tomcat/.bash_profile” so they are set for subsequent logins. Remember to set the desired JAVA_HOME correctly.
export JAVA_HOME=/home/tomcat/jdk1.8.0_77
export CATALINA_HOME=/home/tomcat/apache-tomcat-7.0.68
export CATALINA_BASE=$CATALINA_HOME
$ $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
$ $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh
Checking the Status of Tomcat
There are several ways to check the status of the service.
$ netstat -nlp | grep 8080
tcp 0 0 :::8080 :::* LISTEN 19034/java
$
$ ps -ef | grep tomcat
$ curl -I http://localhost:8080
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 15:09:53 GMT
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