How To Install Apache Tomcat 7.0.52 Server on CentOS & RedHat 5/6

Apache Tomcat (or simply Tomcat) is an open source web server and servlet container developed by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Tomcat implements the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages (JSP) specifications from Sun Microsystems, and provides a "pure Java" HTTP web server environment for Java code to run in.

Apache Tomcat includes tools for configuration and management, but can also be configured by editing XML configuration files,To install Apache Tomcat 7.0.52 

Step 1) SSH your server as root user

Step 2) Install Java we will go for java-1.7.0-openjdk

yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk

Once java is installed check the current version of java by using command java -version output of the command will be like below as you can see version is "1.7.0_51".

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[root@ronakserver.com ~]# java -version
java version "1.7.0_51"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (rhel-2.4.4.2.el5_10-i386 u51-b02)
OpenJDK Server VM (build 24.45-b08, mixed mode)
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Step 3) Not time to install Apache Tomcat7 follow the steps below.

• cd /opt

• wget http://www.eu.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.52/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.52.tar.gz

• tar zxvf apache-tomcat-7.0.52.tar.gz

• mv apache-tomcat-7.0.52 /usr/tomcat7

• useradd -d /usr/tomcat7 tomcat

• chown -R tomcat /usr/tomcat7

• vi /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat7

Paste the below content in the file tomcat7 then save and exit.

 #!/bin/bash




# Tomcat7: Start/Stop Tomcat 7

#

# chkconfig: - 90 10

# description: Tomcat is a Java application Server.



. /etc/init.d/functions

. /etc/sysconfig/network



CATALINA_HOME=/usr/tomcat7

TOMCAT_USER=tomcat

LOCKFILE=/var/lock/subsys/tomcat



RETVAL=0

start(){

   echo "Starting Tomcat7: "

   su - $TOMCAT_USER -c "$CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh"

   RETVAL=$?

   echo

   [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch $LOCKFILE

   return $RETVAL

}



stop(){

   echo "Shutting down Tomcat7: "

   $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh

   RETVAL=$?

   echo

   [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f $LOCKFILE

   return $RETVAL

}



case "$1" in

   start)

      start

      ;;

   stop)

      stop

      ;;

   restart)

      stop

      start

      ;;

   status)

      status tomcat

      ;;

   *)

      echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"

      exit 1

      ;;

esac

exit $?

•  chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat7

• /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat7 start

output of the command will be like below.

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[root@ronakserver.com~]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat7 start

Starting Tomcat7:

Using CATALINA_BASE:   /usr/tomcat7

Using CATALINA_HOME:   /usr/tomcat7

Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/tomcat7/temp

Using JRE_HOME:        /usr

Using CLASSPATH:       /usr/tomcat7/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/tomcat7/bin/tomcat-juli.jar

Tomcat started.

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• chkconfig --add tomcat7

• chkconfig tomcat7 on

Now you can access Apache Tomcat7 using IP:8080 also make sure port 8080 is open in iptables.