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Tomcat Installation

Tomcat Installation

Prerequisites: Java 1.5

Firstly download the latest and greatest Tomcat binary distribution from:-

http://tomcat.apache.org/download-55.cgi

The latest version at the time of this writing, is 5.5.16

Tomcat 5.5.x strictly requires Java 1.5, so this needs to be installed prior to installation.

so the commands:-

mv jakarta-tomcat-5.5.10.tar.gz /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.10.tar.gz
cd /usr/local
tar zxvf jakarta-tomcat-5.5.x.tar.gz

Owing to the long name of the directory, you may want to rename this to simply tomcat, so:-

mv /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.10 /usr/local/tomcat

To start tomcat:-

/usr/local/tomcat/bin/startup.sh

Then browse to:-

http://myIPaddress:8080, and you should see the famous cat!

To stop tomcat:-

/usr/local/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh

Many instances of tomcat can run on the same server, simply change the http, https and shutdown port numbers in /usr/local/tomcat/conf/server.xml so that they don't clash.

Posted at 08:21AM Apr 27, 2006 by Rob Garbutt in Misc technical  |