Tomcat Installation

As a pre-requisite for the installation of Tomcat , you need to have Java installed. Check my previous post for the detailed instruction for  the Java Installation and setting up the necessary environment variables for the Java to work.

• Download the Tomcat Installation file

 [root@localhost tomcat]# mkdir -p /usr/tomcat  
 [root@localhost tomcat]# cd /usr/tomcat/  
 root@localhost tmp]# wget http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.39/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.39.tar.gz  
 --2014-04-01 01:32:13-- http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.39/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.39.tar.gz  
 Resolving archive.apache.org... 192.87.106.229, 140.211.11.131, 2001:610:1:80bc:192:87:106:229  
 Connecting to archive.apache.org|192.87.106.229|:80... connected.  
 HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK  
 Length: 7831716 (7.5M) [application/x-gzip]  
 Saving to: `apache-tomcat-7.0.39.tar.gz'  
 100%[===================================================================================================================================================================================================>] 7,831,716  86.6K/s  in 79s    
 2014-04-01 01:33:33 (97.3 KB/s) - `apache-tomcat-7.0.39.tar.gz' saved [7831716/7831716]  
 [root@localhost tmp]# du -sh apache-tomcat-7.0.39.tar.gz  
 7.5M  apache-tomcat-7.0.39.tar.gz  

• Extract the tar file to install the  Tomcat 

 [root@localhost tomcat]# tar -zxvf /tmp/apache-tomcat-7.0.39.tar.gz   
  [root@localhost java]# cd /usr/tomcat/apache-tomcat-7.0.39/bin   
  [root@localhost bin]# ls -ltr   
  total 796   
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28615 Mar 22 2013 bootstrap.jar   
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13217 Mar 22 2013 catalina.bat   
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19276 Mar 22 2013 catalina.sh   
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2121 Mar 22 2013 catalina-tasks.xml   
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24281 Mar 22 2013 commons-daemon.jar   
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 202451 Mar 22 2013 commons-daemon-native.tar.gz   
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2131 Mar 22 2013 configtest.bat   
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1982 Mar 22 2013 configtest.sh   
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1342 Mar 22 2013 cpappend.bat   
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7492 Mar 22 2013 daemon.sh   
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2178 Mar 22 2013 digest.bat   
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2021 Mar 22 2013 digest.sh   
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3264 Mar 22 2013 setclasspath.bat   
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3524 Mar 22 2013 setclasspath.sh   
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2111 Mar 22 2013 shutdown.bat   
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1960 Mar 22 2013 shutdown.sh   
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2112 Mar 22 2013 startup.bat   
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1961 Mar 22 2013 startup.sh   
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38161 Mar 22 2013 tomcat-juli.jar   
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 288166 Mar 22 2013 tomcat-native.tar.gz   
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4114 Mar 22 2013 tool-wrapper.bat   
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5086 Mar 22 2013 tool-wrapper.sh   
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2116 Mar 22 2013 version.bat   
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1965 Mar 22 2013 version.sh   
  [root@localhost bin]# ./startup.sh   
  Using CATALINA_BASE: /usr/tomcat/apache-tomcat-7.0.39   
  Using CATALINA_HOME: /usr/tomcat/apache-tomcat-7.0.39   
  Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/tomcat/apache-tomcat-7.0.39/temp   
  Using JRE_HOME:  /usr   
  Using CLASSPATH:  /usr/tomcat/apache-tomcat-7.0.39/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/tomcat/apache-tomcat-7.0.39/bin/tomcat-juli.jar   
  [root@localhost bin]# ps -ef | grep tomcat   
  root  2145  1 9 05:35 pts/1 00:00:02 /usr/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/usr/tomcat/apache-tomcat-7.0.39/conf/logging.properties -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/tomcat/apache-tomcat-7.0.39/endorsed -classpath /usr/tomcat/apache-tomcat-7.0.39/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/tomcat/apache-tomcat-7.0.39/bin/tomcat-juli.jar -Dcatalina.base=/usr/tomcat/apache-tomcat-7.0.39 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/tomcat/apache-tomcat-7.0.39 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/usr/tomcat/apache-tomcat-7.0.39/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start   

Next we will discussing the linking of the tomcat with the Apache with native connectors.