How to install Tomcat on SME server

Tomcat Installation and configuration

Extracted from MasterSleepy http://www.vanhees.cc/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=43

* Download java jdk and upload it to your sme server

Go to java.sun.com and download jdk For my example I use jdk-6-linux-i586-rpm.bin ATTENTION: adapt all document jdk filename depending witch file you download

* Install Java jdk

chmod a+x jdk-6-linux-i586-rpm.bin
./jdk-6-linux-i586-rpm.bin
ln -s /usr/java/jdk1.6.0 /usr/java/jdk

After executing bin file, you can remove both file jdk-6-linux-i586-rpm.bin and jdk-6-linux-i586.rpm

* Download tomcat last version

Go to Tomcat download website. Download Core module apache-tomcat-6.0.14.tar.gz and Administration Web application apache-tomcat-5.5.23-admin.tar.gz if you want another tomcat modules go here.

wget http://apache.root.lu/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.14/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.14.tar.gz

* Unpack archive

Unzip and move it

tar -xvzf apache-tomcat-6.0.14.tar.gz
mv apache-tomcat-6.0.14 /opt/
cd /opt
mv apache-tomcat-6.0.14 tomcat

* Create user and group

groupadd tomcat
useradd -g tomcat -d /opt/tomcat tomcat
chown -R tomcat:tomcat /opt/tomcat/
chmod 770 /opt/tomcat/

* Create statup script

Edit /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat with your favorite text editor, it should contain the following :

#! /bin/bash
#
# tomcat Start the tomcat server.
#

NAME="Jakarta Tomcat 6"
TOMCAT_HOME=/opt/tomcat
CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat
JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk
CATALINA_OPTS="-Dfile.encoding=iso8859-1"
TOMCAT_USER=tomcat
LC_ALL=en_US
export TOMCAT_HOME CATALINA_HOME JAVA_HOME CATALINA_OPTS TOMCAT_USER LC_ALL
cd $TOMCAT_HOME/logs
case "$1" in
start)
echo -ne "Starting $NAME.\n"
/bin/su $TOMCAT_USER $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/startup.sh
;;

stop)
echo -ne "Stopping $NAME.\n"
/bin/su $TOMCAT_USER $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh
;;

*)
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/tomcat {start|stop}"
exit 1
;;
esac

exit 0

* Make startup script runable and make tomcat start automatically at boot

chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat
ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat /etc/rc.d/rc7.d/S98tomcat
ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K02tomcat
ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/K02tomcat
ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K02tomcat
ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K02tomcat

End MasterSleepy HOWTO

Add MySQL Database Connector

1. Download the MySQL Java Database Connector http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/
2. Copy the JAR file into /opt/tomcat/lib

If you want to access Tomcat outside your local network, you must open port 8080 (or whatever you configured).

config set tomcat service access public status enabled TCPPort 8080
signal-event remoteaccess-update