Install Apache Tomcat in Ubuntu (VirtualBox)

Start your Ubuntu virtualBox server and using firefox download the latest tomcat image from http://tomcat.apache.org and install it as follows:

Install and Configure Tomcat

• open firefox and navigate to tomcat.apache.org


• From the Download menu, select Tomcat 6.x


• From Binary Distributions (Core) select the tar.gz image


• This will download the file apache-tomcat-6.0.18.tar.gz onto your Desktop


• Open a Terminal window (Applications->Accessories->Terminal) and perform the following:
  

  
  cd Desktop
  sudo mv apache-tomcat-6.0.18.tar.gz /opt
  cd /opt
  sudo gunzip apache-tomcat-6.0.1.18.tar
  sudo tar xvf apache-tomcat-6.0.18.tar
  sudo rm -f apache-tomcat-6.0.18.tar
  

  
  


• Create a tomcat user and change the owner of all the extracted files to tomcat as follows:
  

  
  sudo useradd -g 46 -s /sbin/nologin -d /opt/tomcat/temp tomcat
  sudo chown -R tomcat apache-tomcat-6.0.1.18
  

  
  


• Edit the /etc/profile to set the CATALINA_HOME environment variable as follows:
  

  
  sudo vi /etc/profile
  add export CATALINA_HOME=/opt/apache-tomcat-6.0.18
  

  
  


• create/edit the setenv.sh tomcat file as follows:
  

  
  vi /opt/apache-tomcat-6.0.18/bin/setenv.sh
  

  
  


• add the following lines to the setenv.sh file
  

  
  export CATALINA_HOME=/opt/apache-tomcat-6.0.18
  export JAVA_HOME=/usr/jdk1.6.0_10
  

  
  


• reboot your server

Create scripts to start and stop the Server

Create a bin sub-directory in your home directory and add the scripts startServer and stopServer as follows:

cd
mkdir bin
cd bin

create the startServer script as follows:

vi startServer

add the following line to startServer

sudo -u tomcat /opt/apache-tomcat-6.0.18/bin/startup.sh

Now create the stopServer script as follows:

vi stopServer

add the following line to stopServer

sudo -u tomcat /opt/apache-tomcat-6.0.18/bin/shutdown.sh

Now set the scripts to executables as follows:

chmod 755 startServer stopServer

Start and Verify that the Tomcat Server is running

In your terminal session enter the following:

startServer

Open firefox and navigate to the following url

http://localhost:8080