Apache Tomcat is a free and
open source
software implementation for JavaServlets, providing support for Java Server Pages (JSP). Many popular web-based applications use servlets. You may choose to run Tomcat with either Sun's Java implementation or the OpenJDK implementation of Java.
Because Tomcat version 6 was included in Ubuntu installing a working Tomcat server is reasonably straightforward. However, before we can start installing Tomcat itself, we must first install Java.
First Install Sun Java in ubuntu 9.04 using this tutorial
Install tomcat 6 in ubuntu 9.04
sudo apt-get install tomcat6 tomcat6-admin tomcat6-common tomcat6-user tomcat6-docs tomcat6-examples
This command downloads and install the following packages
tomcat6 : Servlet and JSP engine
tomcat6-admin : Admin web applications
tomcat6-common : Common files
tomcat6-user : Tools to create user instances
tomcat6-docs : Example web applications
tomcat6-examples : Example web applications
To start, stop, restart and get the server status
Start tomcat server
sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat6 start
Stop tomcat server
sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat6 stop
Restart tomcat server
sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat6 restart
Get tomcat server status
sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat6 status
After installation type http://localhost:8080 or http://serverip:8080/examples/servlets/ in your browser.Now you should see tomcat welcome page
* To enable admin web based features add the following lines to your /etc/tomcat6/tomcat-user.xml
<role rolename="manager"/>
<role rolename="admin"/>
<user name="admin" password="secret_password" roles="manager,admin"/>
* you should be able to see your manage page here http://your_ip_goes_here:8080/manager/html
* log in with the name and password you just set in /etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml
* ls /var/lib/tomcat6 directory.
* you should see these directories conf, logs, webapps, work
* webapps is where your servlets will go ( or at least a xml file that points to them )
* as a test download this war file http://simple.souther.us/SimpleServlet.war
* then use the tomcat management page and select war file to deploy ( in teh deploy section) to upload this file to your server
* optionally just wget http://simple.souther.us/SimpleServlet.war directly to the webapps folder
* tomcat should recognize the war file and expand it with everything you need
* browse to http://serverip:8080/SimpleServlet/
Change tomcat server to run on port 80
If you want to Change tomcat server to run on port 80 follow this procedure
You need to edit the /etc/tomcat6/server.xml file
nano /etc/tomcat6/server.xml
Now replace the part that says Connector port=”8080? with Connector port=”80?
Save and exit the file
Restart tomcat server with the following command
sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat6 restart
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