Install Apache Tomcat 6.0.32 (Linux)

1) Download the Tomcat software from the location below,

 http://apache.opensourceresources.org/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.32/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.32.tar.gz

2) Login to Putty and sudo to user "otxuser" (used to run application) and makesure JAVA_HOME environment variable is setup.




3) Change the permission of the file downloaded to be executable.
# chmod a+x apache-tomcat-6.0.32.tar.gz

4) Change to the directory in which Tomcat is to be installed.
# cd /home/otxuser

5) Run the self-extracting binary.
# tar xvfz apache-tomcat-6.0.32.tar.gz

6) Tomcat is installed into its own directory.

Path: /home/otxuser/apache-tomcat-6.0.32

7) Adapt the default Port Number by editing

/home/otxuser/apache-tomcat-6.0.32/conf/server.xml.

8) Shutdown Tomcat
# ./shutdown.sh



9) Start Tomcat
# ./startup.sh



10) Confirm that tomcat is running by checking the process.

# ps –ef | grep tomcat