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Apache Tomcat is one of the oldest & most widely used open-source web server that is used to
serve java-based web-pages, it executes Java servlets and renders Web pages that include
Java Server Page coding. It has been used by a number of organizations for serving java web
pages. It generally runs JSP, Servlet, etc.
In this tutorial, we will learn to install Tomcat on Centos/RedHAT. Let’s start with the
pre-requisites for tomcat installation.
Pre-Requisites
We need to have JAVA installed on the system before we can install tomcat on our systems. To
install java 8, use the following command,
You can refer to this tutorial for detailed instructions on installing java.
Install Tomcat
We will first create a separate user for using the apache tomcat,
# useradd tomcat-user
# passwd tomcat-user
Next, we will create a directory which will act as home directory for tomcat installation,
# mkdir /data/tomcat
# su – tomcat-user
$ wget
http://mirrors.estointernet.in/apache/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.5.50/bin/apache-tomcat-8.5.50.tar
.gz
Our tomcat installation is ready & we can now start tomcat by running the startup script,
$ sh /data/tomcat/bin/startup.sh
But we will create a service script to start & stop tomcat. Revert back to root user to create the
service file,
# vi /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service
[Unit]
After=syslog.target network.target
[Service]
Type=forking
Environment=JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jre
Environment=CATALINA_PID=/data/tomcat/temp/tomcat.pid
Environment=CATALINA_HOME=/data/tomcat
Environment=CATALINA_BASE=/data/tomcat
Environment=’JAVA_dataS=-Djava.awt.headless=true
-Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom’
ExecStart=/data/tomcat/bin/startup.sh
User=tomcat
Group=tomcat
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Now save the file & exit. Load the newly created service into systemd with this command,
# systemctl daemon-reload
You can now check the tomcat installation by opening the following URL on web browser,
http://127.0.0.1:8080
Configuring Tomcat
Apache tomcat is now ready to be started but before we do that we need to assign credentials
to access ‘Manager’ & ‘GUI’ page of tomcat, as by default no user name and pasword is setup.
To asisgn the credentials, we will use the ‘/opt/tomcat/conf/tomcat-users.xml ‘ file,
$ vim /opt/tomcat/conf/tomcat-users.xml
Make sure that you make these entries before the tag ‘tomcat-users’, i.e. make above entries
before the below mentioned lines,
<tomcat-users xmlns=”http://tomcat.apache.org/xml”
xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”
xsi:schemaLocation=”http://tomcat.apache.org/xml tomcat-users.xsd”
version=”1.0″>
Once done, save the file & exit. We need to make another change, though this is completely
optional & completely depends on how you will access the manager page.We can only access
the manager page from the browser on localhost but it we to access it on some other remote
machines, we need to modify the ‘context.html’ for manager to comment the lines which
disables the remote login,
$ vi /opt/tomcat/webapps/manager/META-INF/context.xml
</Context>
$ vi /opt/tomcat/webapps/host-manager/META-INF/context.xml
</Context>
Now save the file & exit. We can now enter the management interface for tomcat but first we
need to restart the apache tomcat,
We can now access the management page with the credentials that we have provided above in
the configuration. That’s it, we now end this tutorial on how to install Tomcat on
CentOS/RedHAT. Please feel free to send in any questions, queries or suggestions using the
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