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                                                       Install Tomcat as a Service

#Login as a root user

sudo su -

yum install wget unzip -y

cd /opt
wget https://downloads.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-9/v9.0.44/bin/apache-tomcat-9.0.44.zip
unzip apache-tomcat-9.0.44.zip

chmod u+x /opt/apache-tomcat-9.0.44/bin/*.sh

mv apache-tomcat-9.0.44 tomcat9

#Create a system user called tomcat.

useradd -r tomcat

cp -r /opt/tomcat9 /usr/local/tomcat9

#Create a file called tomcat.service
 

vi /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service


[Unit]
Description=Apache Tomcat Server
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
Type=forking

User=tomcat
Group=tomcat

Environment=CATALINA_PID=/usr/local/tomcat9/temp/tomcat.pid
Environment=CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat9
Environment=CATALINA_BASE=/usr/local/tomcat9

ExecStart=/usr/local/tomcat9/bin/catalina.sh start
ExecStop=/usr/local/tomcat9/bin/catalina.sh stop

RestartSec=10
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

#Reload the systemd
systemctl daemon-reload
 

#Enable the  tomcat service

systemctl enable tomcat.service

#Start the tomcat service

 systemctl start tomcat.service

# Check the tomcat service

systemctl status tomcat.service

#netstat -tunlap

#ps -fax | grep tomcat #vi /usr/local/tomcat9/webapps/manager/META-INF/context.xml #Comment the below lines <!--            <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve"   allow="127\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+|::1|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1" />       -->

Tomcat Installation - Linux - Mithun Technologies - 9980923226

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Tomcat Installation

#Login as a root user
sudo su -

yum install wget unzip -y

cd /opt

wget https://dlcdn.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-9/v9.0.86/bin/apache-tomcat-9.0.86.zip

unzip apache-tomcat-9.0.86.zip

cd /opt/apache-tomcat-9.0.86

chmod u+x *.sh

ln -s /opt/apache-tomcat-9.0.86/bin/startup.sh /usr/bin/startTomcat

ln -s /opt/apache-tomcat-9.0.86/bin/shutdown.sh /usr/bin/stopTomcat

#ps -fax | grep tomcat

#netstat -tunlap

#vi /opt/apache-tomcat-9.0.65/webapps/manager/META-INF/context.xml

#Comment the below lines

#<!-- <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve"

# allow="127\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+|::1|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1" /> -->

startTomcat

#stopTomcat

 

#Create a user

#vi /opt/apache-tomcat-9.0.44/conf/tomcat-users.xml

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