Tomcat

Apache Tomcat is an open source software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies.

Installation on Slackware

• cd ~/Downloads

• wget http://mirrors.fe.up.pt/pub/apache/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.53/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.53.tar.gz

• su
• cp apache-tomcat-7.0.53.tar.gz /opt
• cd /opt
• tar xvzf apache-tomcat-7.0.53.tar.gz
• chown vitor * -R
• chgrp users * -R
• exit

Start Tomcat

/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.53/bin/ ./startup.sh http://localhost:8080/

Add admin user

• cd /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.53/conf

Edit tomcat-users.xml

  <role rolename="admin"/>
  <role rolename="manager"/>
  <role rolename="manager-gui"/>
  <user username="admin" password="12345678" roles="admin,manager,manager-gui"/

• ./shutdown.sh
• ./startup.sh

WebApps location

• /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.53/webapps

A WAR file can be copied or exploded in the webapps folder.

Sample App

Download http://localhost:8080/docs/appdev/sample/sample.war and deploy in the webapps folder. After the deploy the WAR file is exploded.