Installing Tomcat 7 on Ubuntu 12.04
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this installation make sure java is installed in your machine. You can
refer this post if you haven't done that already.
- Download Tomcat 7 tar.gz binary distribution from here.
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Unpack it using following command.
tar xvzf apache-tomcat-7.0.29.tar.gz
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Move it to a more appropriate location using following command.
sudo mv apache-tomcat-7.0.29/ /usr/share/tomcat7
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Open up /usr/share/tomcat7/bin/catalina.sh file using following command
gedit /usr/share/tomcat7/bin/catalina.sh
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Add following two lines in there after the first line.
JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-6u32" JRE_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-6u32/jre"
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Open up /usr/share/tomcat7/conf/tomcat-users.xml and uncomment user and
role entries there. Then add a manager-gui role and a user by adding
following lines there.
<role rolename="manager-gui"/> <user username="pavithra" password="tomcat" roles="manager-gui"/>
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Verify Tomcat installation using the following URL.
http://127.0.0.1:8080/
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To login as the manager, use the following URL, provide the relevant username and password.
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