Getting, Installing and Running Tomcat

Getting, Installing, and Running Tomcat

Binary Installation

Download the binary for your system from http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat/release

The default is usually to install everything in /usr/local/

Uncompress the archive, replace the tomcat_3.2.x.tar.gz with the gzip'd file you downloaded

tar xvzf tomcat_3.2.x.tar.gz

You will end up with a tomcat_3.2.x directory, with x being the particular sub-version of Tomcat you downloaded. Move to that directory.

cd tomcat_3.2.x

Two environment variables -- TOMCAT_HOME and JAVA_HOME have to be set in order to run Tomcat. TOMCAT_HOME is to point to the root directory of your tomcat hierarchy.

1. On Unix/Linux to set TOMCAT_HOME you should type:

TOMCAT_HOME=/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat_3.2.x ; export TOMCAT_HOME

setenv TOMCAT_HOME /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat_3.2.x

Set the environment variable JAVA_HOME to point to the root directory of your JDK hierarchy, then add the Java interpreter to your PATH environment variable.

2. On Unix/Linux to set JAVA_HOME you should type:

JAVA_HOME=/path/to/java ; export JAVA_HOME

setenv JAVA_HOME /path/to/java

To add Java interpreter to your path you should type:

setenv PATH /path/to/java/bin:$PATH

Starting and Stopping Tomcat

You start and stop Tomcat using scripts in the bin directory. Make sure TOMCAT_HOME and JAVA_HOME environment variables are set before starting Tomcat!

To start: bin/startup.sh

To stop: bin/shutdown.sh