linux install tomcat

折腾了好久，按照官网的安装流程安装了不止3次，发现还是不能成功，最终发现是linux机器本身的问题，因为我用的公司的virtual machine，可能是机器本身在一次迁移的过程当中出现了问题，导致了我的悲剧。最终的解决方案是重新setup了virtual machine，并且一路顺畅，安装成功。

This artical shows you how to install, configure Tomcat in linux machine. Noted that all of steps are based on root user.

Step 1: Verify Java version, if no java found, please install JDK

java -version

Step 2: download Tomcat

Step 3: unzip the package, and move it to target folder

tar zxf apache-tomcat-8.0.36.tar.gz

cp -R apache-tomcat-8.0.36/* /usr/local/tomcat

Step 4: add CATALINA_HOME

vi ~/.bashrc

#!/bin/bash
CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat

source ~/.bashrc

Step 5: Change execute permissions for following files

chmod +x $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
chmod +x $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh
chmod +x $CATALINA_HOME/bin/catalina.sh

Step 6: Start Tomcat

$CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh

Step 7: Check web site

http://localhost:8080

Step 8: Start catalina service

sudo $CATALINA_HOME/bin/catalina.sh start

Step 9: deploy web app or web service into $CATALINA_HOME/webapps folder.

Issues:

• Cannot access web site.
• Cannot stop catalina service.
• Could not contact localhost:8005

The problems are sovled by formatting linux server.