Step 6: Adjust the Firewall and Test the Tomcat Server
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Next, reload the systemd daemon so that it knows about our service file:ĭouble check that it started without errors by typing: When you are finished, save and close the file. etc/systemd/system/rvice ĭescription=Apache Tomcat Web Application ContainerĮnvironment=JAVA_HOME= /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-amd64/jreĮnvironment=CATALINA_PID=/opt/tomcat/temp/tomcat.pidĮnvironment='CATALINA_OPTS=-Xms512M -Xmx1024M -server -XX:+UseParallelGC'Įnvironment='JAVA_OPTS=true =file:/dev/./urandom' The easiest way to look up that location is by running this command: This path is commonly referred to as “JAVA_HOME”. Tomcat needs to know where Java is installed. We want to be able to run Tomcat as a service, so we will set up systemd service file. Now that the proper permissions are set up, we can create a systemd service file to manage the Tomcat process.
APACHE TOMCAT 8 ARCHIVE
Create the directory, then extract the archive to it with these commands:
APACHE TOMCAT 8 INSTALL
We will install Tomcat to the /opt/tomcat directory. Use curl to download the link that you copied from the Tomcat website: This is a good directory to download ephemeral items, like the Tomcat tarball, which we won’t need after extracting the Tomcat contents: Next, change to the /tmp directory on your server.
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Under the Binary Distributions section, then under the Core list, copy the link to the “tar.gz”. At the time of writing, the latest version is 8.5.5, but you should use a later stable version if it is available. The best way to install Tomcat 8 is to download the latest binary release then configure it manually.įind the latest version of Tomcat 8 at the Tomcat 8 Downloads page. Now that our tomcat user is set up, let’s download and install Tomcat. sudo useradd -s /bin/false -g tomcat -d /opt/tomcat tomcat.We’ll make this user a member of the tomcat group, with a home directory of /opt/tomcat (where we will install Tomcat), and with a shell of /bin/false (so nobody can log into the account): We will create a new user and group that will run the Tomcat service. Step 2: Create Tomcat Userįor security purposes, Tomcat should be run as an unprivileged user (i.e.
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Now that Java is installed, we can create a tomcat user, which will be used to run the Tomcat service. Then install the Java Development Kit package with apt-get:
APACHE TOMCAT 8 UPDATE
We can satisfy that requirement by installing OpenJDK with apt-get.įirst, update your apt-get package index: Tomcat requires Java to be installed on the server so that any Java web application code can be executed.
APACHE TOMCAT 8 HOW TO
You can learn how to do this by completing our Ubuntu 16.04 initial server setup guide. Prerequisitesīefore you begin with this guide, you should have a non-root user with sudo privileges set up on your server. This tutorial covers the basic installation and some configuration of the latest release of Tomcat 8 on your Ubuntu 16.04 server.
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Tomcat is an open source implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies, released by the Apache Software Foundation. Apache Tomcat is a web server and servlet container that is used to serve Java applications.