Installation of tomcat in linux

First download package

then extract the package

[bbusschots@honeysuckle ~]$ tar -xzf apache-tomcat-5.5.17.tar.gz
[bbusschots@honeysuckle ~]$ sudo mv apache-tomcat-5.5.17 /usr/local/
[bbusschots@honeysuckle ~]$ cd /usr/local/
[bbusschots@honeysuckle local]$ sudo ln -s apache-tomcat-5.5.17/ tomcat


Perform the above action

setting environment variables
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1. JAVA_HOME - needs to point to your Java install. (If you used the latest Sun RPM
that will be /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_6)
2. CATALINA_HOME - should be set to /usr/local/tomcat


BY USING

[root@cit146 bin]# export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_03/

[root@cit146 bin]# export CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat

You are now ready to start Tomcat with the command /usr/local/tomcat/bin/startup.sh and stop Tomcat with the command /usr/local/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh.

Tomcat will not start automatically at boot though.

Note : [root@cit146 bin]# ./startup.sh
Using CATALINA_BASE: /usr/local/tomcat
Using CATALINA_HOME: /usr/local/tomcat
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/local/tomcat/temp
Using JRE_HOME: /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_03/
touch: cannot touch `/usr/local/tomcat/logs/catalina.out': No such file or directory

solution : we make a logs directory in /usr/local/tomcat/

[root@cit146 bin]# ./startup.sh
Using CATALINA_BASE: /usr/local/tomcat
Using CATALINA_HOME: /usr/local/tomcat
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/local/tomcat/temp
Using JRE_HOME: /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_03/


show the status
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[root@cit146 tomcat]# cd logs

[root@cit146 logs]# tail -100f catalina.out


Nov 26, 2008 4:04:50 PM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener lifecycleEvent
INFO: The Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_03/jre/lib/i386/server:/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_03/jre/lib/i386:/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_03/jre/../lib/i386:/usr/java/packages/lib/i386:/lib:/usr/lib
Nov 26, 2008 4:04:50 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Nov 26, 2008 4:04:50 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 1129 ms
Nov 26, 2008 4:04:50 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
Nov 26, 2008 4:04:50 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.20
Nov 26, 2008 4:04:50 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
Nov 26, 2008 4:04:51 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Nov 26, 2008 4:04:52 PM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
Nov 26, 2008 4:04:52 PM org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/23 config=null
Nov 26, 2008 4:04:52 PM org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreLoader load
INFO: Find registry server-registry.xml at classpath resource
Nov 26, 2008 4:04:52 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 1483 ms





Detail available in http://www.bartbusschots.ie/blog/?p=240