TOMCAT INSTALLATION (version 8.0.24)

Step 1: Verify Java version

For the installation of Tomcat version 8.0.24, we need that java version 1.0.8_* version.

Check the version of java in the base machine using the below

sample output :

[root@sandy ~]# java -version

java version "1.6.0_22"

OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.10.4) (rhel-1.41.1.10.4.el6-x86_64)

OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.0-b11, mixed mode)

step 2: Download Tomcat 8.0.24 version from the internet or using wget command

[root@sandy ~]#wget http://www.us.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.0.24/bin/apache-tomcat-8.0.24.tar.gz    # tar xzf apache-tomcat-8.0.24.tar.gz

Step 3: Configure Environment Variables

Before starting Tomcat, configure CATALINA_HOME environment variable in your system using following commands.

# echo "export CATALINA_HOME=\"/opt/apache-tomcat-8.0.24\"" >> ~/.bashrc

Step 4: Starting Tomcat

Tomcat is very easy to use, There are no need to compile its source. You simple extract the archive and start the tomcat server. Tomcat by default start on port 8080, So make sure no other application using the same port.

[root@sandy ~]# cd apache-tomcat-8.0.24  [root@sandy ~]# .bin/startup.sh

Step 5: Access Tomcat in Browser

Tomcat server works on port 8080 default. Access tomcat on web browser by connecting your server on port 8080.

 http://sandy.domain.com:8080

Step 6: Setup User Accounts

Finally we need to create user accounts to secure and access admin/manager pages. Edit conf/tomcat-users.xml file in your editor and paste inside <tomcat-users> </tomcat-users> tags.Delete  tags.. In xml the line which start from <!-- is not take in account.

<!-- user manager can access only manager section -->    <role rolename="manager-gui" />  <user username="manager" password="manager" roles="manager-gui" />  <role rolename="admin-gui" />  <user username="admin" password="_SECRET_PASSWORD_" roles="manager-gui,admin-gui" />

Step 7 : login to Host Manager

Enter the user name and password as "manager" and "manager".

Step 8 : To change the default port

we can make the tomcat to listen different port as our wish and we can create multiple tomcat which will be listen in multiple port. To change the default port in <tomcat home>/conf/server.xml

connectionTimeout="20000"

redirectPort="8443" />

By changing the connector port number to as our wish and restart the tomcat using <tomcat-home>/bin/./shutdown.sh and <tomcat-home>/bin/./startup.sh

Install Multiple Tomcat in single server

Running Multiple Tomcat Instances on Single Machine

In this post we will see how to run multiple tomcat instances on single machine and under single user account.
We first see the tomcat directory structure. .

here each folder uses following purpose.

bin - It contains all binary and script files for running tomcat.

lib - contains all shared libraries used for tomcat

conf - contains configuration information like which port tomcat can bind , etc...

logs - it contain all logging details

temp - this folder tomcat used for temporary files purpose

webapps - this folder is very important. here we put all application war files.

work - If application contain any jsp then jsp is translated and converted into servlet its stores here.

In when run the tomcat its uses 5 environment variables. They are

CATALINA_HOME, CATALINA_BASE, CATALINA_TMPDIR, JRE_HOME/JAVA_HOME, CLASSPATH

in above list CATALINA_HOME and JAVA_HOME is mandatory environment variables. all others are optional and its can be calculated using CATALINA_HOME.

CATALINA_HOME - this environment variable should point to tomcat base folder, where tomcat binary are installed/extracted. so based on CATALINA_HOME we can get bin and lib folder

CATALINA_BASE - If we not specified then CATALINA_HOME value is set. This variable pointed to configuration and webapps folder. Based on this variable server uses conf, logs, temp, webapps, work folders.

Usual ways to run the tomcat is only set CATALINA_HOME environment variable. and run the startup.sh script file. this startup.sh file automatically calculate and assign the values of other variables what we are not set.

startup.sh file set the environment variable and then call catalina.sh file. this files is read CATALINA_BASE value and attach conf i.e $CATALINA_BASE/conf folder and get server.xml. this file is heart of tomcat. it contains all configuration information. like which tomcat uses as shoutdown port, connector post, host name, application folder ,.. for example usually tomcat uses 8080 is a connector port, so we can access http://localhost:8080/

if we set the $CATALINA_BASE explicitly then tomcat uses our variable to search and get the server.xml file from our target place, what we specified in CATALINA_BASE.

this is trick to run multiple tomcat in single machine. we don't change CATALINA_HOME value. we need to change CATALINA_BASE value before start/shutdown the tomcat.

create one folder named "tomcat-instance1" anywhere, and copy conf, temp, webapps and logs folder from CATALINA_HOME folder and change conf/server.xml file in tomcat-instance1. we need to change 3 port shutdown port, connector port and ajp port.

shutdown port - this port is used for shutdown the tomcat. when we call the shutdown.sh script they send signal to shutdown port. this port listen by tomcat java process. if signal is received the that process then its cleanup and exit by itself.

connector Port -This port is actual port to expose the application to outside client.

ajp port - this port is used to apache httpd server communicate to tomcat. this port used when we setup load balanced server.

see the sample server.xml file

.... ..d

<server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">
.....
<connector connectiontimeout="20000" port="8080" protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol" redirectport="8443">
<connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectport="8443">
</connector></connector></server>

so we change these three port to different number, because once this port is binded then other process can't bind it again. so wee bind different port. so tomcat-instance1/conf/server.xml file i configured server port =8105, connector port = 8181, ajp port = 8109.

<server port="8105" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">
.....
<connector connectiontimeout="20000" port="8181" protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol" redirectport="8443">
<connector port="8109" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectport="8443">
</connector></connector></server>

now we can create two script file for startup and shutdown the tomcat-instance1.
startup-instance1.sh
export CATALINA_BASE= /home/ramki/tomcat-instance1
cd $CATALINA_HOME/bin
./startup.sh

shutdown-instance1.sh

export CATALINA_BASE= /home/ramki/tomcat-instance1

cd $CATALINA_HOME/bin

./shutdown.sh

here we explicitly set the CATALINA_BASE variable and point to new tomcat-instance1
the we go to CATALINA_HOME/bin folder because all binary for running tomcat is still present in CATALINA_HOME folder then startup/shutdown the script.

Based on above technique we can create many instance folder and change conf/server.xml file port values and run that instance with own newly created script files.

System Administrator

Thursday 18 February 2016