how to install apache tomcat on linux

apache tomcat.sh(w)

Step 1: Install OpenJDK

Simply run the commands below to install OpenJDK:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install default-jdk

Step 2: Create Tomcat Service Account
sudo groupadd tomcat
sudo useradd -s /bin/false -g tomcat -d /opt/tomcat tomcat

Step 3: Download Tomcat Packages
cd /tmp
wget ftp://apache.cs.utah.edu/apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-8/v9.0.35/bin/apache-tomcat-9.0.35.tar.gz
sudo mkdir /opt/tomcat

##Next, give the tomcat user control of the entire directory and make all the scripts in the bin location executable…

sudo chown -R tomcat: /opt/tomcat
sudo sh -c 'chmod +x /opt/tomcat/bin/*.sh'

Step 4: Configure Tomcat Service

sudo nano /opt/tomcat/conf/tomcat-users.xml

###Then create an account with password for the user and save by copying and pasting the lines below into the file..

<role rolename="manager-gui"/>
<role rolename="admin-gui"/>

####Next, run the commands below to create a server account for Tomcat

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service
###then copy and paste the lines below into the file and save

[Unit]
Description=Tomcat servlet container
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking

User=tomcat
Group=tomcat

Environment="JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/default-java"
Environment="JAVA_OPTS=-Djava.security.egd=file:///dev/urandom"

Environment="CATALINA_BASE=/opt/tomcat"
Environment="CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat"
Environment="CATALINA_PID=/opt/tomcat/temp/tomcat.pid"
Environment="CATALINA_OPTS=-Xms512M -Xmx1024M -server -XX:+UseParallelGC"

ExecStart=/opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh
ExecStop=/opt/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

####After that, run the commands below to reload systemd profiles and enable tomcat service…

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start tomcat.service
sudo systemctl enable tomcat.service

sudo systemctl status tomcat.service


###Now, open your browser and browse to the local server IP or hostname

http://localhost:8080