How to install tomcat6 and make it work on Fedora 16

[elaich]

Hii,

I installed tomcat6 on my fedora 16:

yum install tomcat6 tomcat6-webapps tomcat6-admin-webapps

I tried to start it.

# tomcat6
Usage: /usr/sbin/tomcat6 {start|start-security|stop|version}
# tomcat6 start
# /usr/sbin/tomcat6: line 30: /logs/catalina.out: No such file or directory

I didn't find documentation about tomcat6 when googling...

[glennzo]

http://tomcat.apache.org/
http://www.google.com/search?q=tomcat6&as_rights=

I know nothing about tomcat6. Do the following 2 commands result in any different results?

PHP Code:

systemctl enable tomcat6.service
systemctl start tomcat6.service 


[elaich]

Nice, but this is not for fedora tomcat6.

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-...ml#Unix_daemon

YUM is supposed to do this work for us.

[glennzo]

Yum will install. I wouln't assume that it will configure everything for you.

There sure are a ton of search results for "Fedora 16 tomcat6".

[sea]

Not using Tomcat either.
But i'd like to point out that there's a diffrence between a yum installation, and the the building of an application.
If you build the application, you have chances (but NOT granted) that some configuration is done along the way.

The page you linked, shows how to build tomcat and configure it.
It doesnt even mention yum, so i have no idea how you think yum should do anything else but install it.

[elaich]

okai I'm reading this.

http://caffiendfrog.blogspot.com/201...strations.html

if that works for me, i let you know.

thanks.

---------- Post added at 11:03 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:02 AM ----------

Originally Posted by sea

The page you linked, shows how to build tomcat and configure it.
It doesnt even mention yum, so i have no idea how you think yum should do anything else but install it.

I linked That page to let you know that the apache tomcat documentation doesn't mention the tomcat6 fedora package.

[sea]

Originally Posted by elaich

I linked That page to let you know that the apache tomcat documentation doesn't mention the tomcat6 fedora package.

Right, as they provide the source code, they dont have to mention any packaging system at all.

A quick google for fedora tomcat6 brought up some aged article:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...a-12-a-822574/
Not sure if there's anything applicable for you.

[sanhozay]

I use Tomcat a lot.

If you want this for development I would recommend NOT installing the repository version (and that goes for any GNU/Linux distribution). The repository versions are in system directories and it's hard to control them as you would want during development, e.g. constant redeployment and trying to debug in an IDE. For production use they are fine.

I just download the binary tarball from Apache and unpack it in ~/Software/. The name doesn't matter. You can start it by running the startup.sh script in the ~/Software/apache-tomcat-xxx/bin directory. You can also set it up as a server in Eclipse or Netbeans, which is the way I work with it. And you can have multiple versions for testing.

Just make sure there are no port conflicts (it's 8080 by default). If you have the repository Tomcat running on 8080 for final testing, just change the port number on the development version to something like 8082.

~/Software/apache-tomcat-xxx/conf/server.xml

...
<Connector port="8080" 
    protocol="HTTP/1.1" 
    connectionTimeout="20000"
    redirectPort="8443" />
...

[RupertPupkin]

Originally Posted by sanhozay

If you want this for development I would recommend NOT installing the repository version (and that goes for any GNU/Linux distribution).

I completely agree with you. Like you I always install Tomcat from the binary tarball from the Apache Tomcat site. I just installed Tomcat 6.0.35 on a machine yesterday in that way and it was simple. My steps were:

1. Unpack the apache-tomcat-6.0.35.tar.gz tarball in /usr/local, so that Tomcat is installed in /usr/local/apache-tomcat-6.0.35.
2. I have Oracle JDK 1.7.0_03 installed in /usr/java, so I did this (as root):
   

   cp /usr/local/tomcat/lib/*-api.jar /usr/java/jre/lib/ext

3. Since I'm still used to the old SysV way of starting services (instead of systemd), I created an init script for Tomcat in /etc/init.d (called "tomcat") like this:
   

   #!/bin/sh
   CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat
   JAVA_HOME=/usr/java
   export CATALINA_HOME JAVA_HOME
   case $1 in
      start)
         if [ -x ${CATALINA_HOME}/bin/startup.sh ]; then
            echo "Starting Tomcat..."
            ${CATALINA_HOME}/bin/startup.sh
         fi
         exit
         ;;
      stop)
         if [ -x ${CATALINA_HOME}/bin/shutdown.sh ]; then
            echo "Stopping Tomcat..."
            ${CATALINA_HOME}/bin/shutdown.sh
         fi
         exit
         ;;
      restart)
         $0 stop; $0 start;
         ;;
      "")
         $0 start
         exit
         ;;
      *)
         echo "tomcat [start|stop|restart]"
         exit
      ;;
   esac

4. Start [and stop] Tomcat like this: /etc/init.d/tomcat start[stop]
   But if you want to use systemd instead then do this:
   

   chkconfig tomcat
   systemctl enable tomcat.service
   systemctl start tomcat.service

[foampile]

hey Rupert, I did exactly all you did except that i put your script in /usr/sbin. works awesomely !!

thanks