Installation of Apache Tomcat on Linux

Tomcat is a java development web server.

Prerequisites for tomcat:

1.  Java Development kit (JDK)

Installation of JDK On Linux:

First download jdk as a compressed file from internet. We have used jdk-1_5_0_03-linux-i586.bin file for installing jdk on fedora core 7.

Create a directory called java under / and download jdk-1_5_0_03-linux-i586.bin in it.

# mkdir  /java

# cd java

The downloaded file is a text file, so change it to executable using chmod.

# chmod +x jdk-1_5_0_03-linux-i586.bin

# ./ jdk-1_5_0_03-linux-i586.bin

This will execute the above file and ask for accepting license agreement. Enter “yes” to install the jdk. Hence a directory jdk1.5.0_03 will be created.

Now edit the file /etc/profile using vi editor to enter below lines.

export JAVA_HOME=/java/jdk1.5.0_03

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Installing Tomcat

Create a directory “tomcat” under / and download the Jakarta-tomcat-4.1.12.tar.gz in it.

# mkdir  /tomcat

# cd  /tomcat

# wget http://archive .apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-4/archive/v4.1.12/bin/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.12.tar.gz

# tar -xzvf  Jakarta-tomcat-4.1.12.tar.gz

This will create a directory jakarta-tomcat-4.1.12

# cd  Jakarta-tomcat-4.1.12

# cd bin

# ./startup.sh

This will start the tomcat (similarly use ./shutdown.sh to stop tomcat)

Test the tomcat by http://localhost:8080/ in the browser.

The tomcat web page will be displayed if tomcat is installed successfully.

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Managing Tomcat using web admin tool

There is a directory “conf” in the /tomcat/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.12 folder which contains file called “tomcat-users.xml.

Edit this file to enter a new role by the name of “admin” and then adding a new user with admin role. This user will thus become the administrator of tomcat.

<role rolename=”admin” description=”tomcat administrator”/>

<user username=”test” password=”secure” roles=”admin”/>

Now open the tomcat webpage using http://localhost:8080 and then in the left side of the page navigate to “Tomcat Administration” and click it. This will ask for username & password. Enter the username as “test” and password “secure” to log on as administrator.

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