Installing Tomcat
Tomcat is part of the Apache Project. Tomcat, which is free and open-source, can serve up JavaServer Pages (JSP). For more info on this, see J2EE JavaServer Pages Technology. The JavaServer Pages FAQ is here.
We were a bit lazy, and grabbed a binary from here. Make sure you have Java installed. We installed Java in this article. Let's extract the binary:
[root@srv-1 opt]# ls
j2sdk j2sdk1.4.2_03 jakarta-tomcat-5.0.18.tar.gz lost+found
[root@srv-1 opt]# tar -xzf jak*.gz
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Make a symbolic link to tomcat:
[root@srv-1 opt]# ln -s jakarta-tomcat-5.0.18 tomcat
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Let's set up some environment variables and a path. In /etc/profile:
CATALINA_HOME="/opt/tomcat"
export PATH CATALINA_HOME JAVA_HOME USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC
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Load the new profile:
[root@srv-1 opt]# source /etc/profile
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Let's start up Tomcat:
[root@srv-1 opt]# cd tomcat
[root@srv-1 tomcat]# ls
bin conf logs RUNNING.txt shared webapps
common LICENSE RELEASE-NOTES server temp work
[root@srv-1 tomcat]# cd webapps
[root@srv-1 webapps]# ../bin/startup.sh
Using CATALINA_BASE: /opt/tomcat
Using CATALINA_HOME: /opt/tomcat
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /opt/tomcat/temp
Using JAVA_HOME: /opt/j2sdk
[root@srv-1 webapps]#
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We can verify this at http://srv-1:8080/:
We have Tomcat running!
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