Monday, August 5, 2013

Installing Tomcat 6 on Fedora, Red Hat or CentOS

Installing Tomcat 6 on Fedora, Red Hat or CentOS

yum install tomcat6-webapps
Tomcat will get installed across the following directories
/etc/tomcat6             conf files     $CATALINA_HOME/conf
/usr/share/java/tomcat6  libs           $CATALINA_HOME/lib
/usr/share/tomcat6/bin   executables    $CATALINA_HOME/bin
/var/log/tomcat6         logs           $CATALINA_HOME/logs
/var/cache/tomcat6/temp  temp files     $CATALINA_HOME/temp
/usr/share/tomcat6       home directory $CATALINA_HOME
/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps web apps       $CATALINA_HOME/webapps
/var/cache/tomcat6/work  compiled stuff $CATALINA_HOME/work
Set CATALINA_HOME in /etc/profile
export CATALINE_HOME=/usr/share/tomcat6
Tomcat can be stopped, started and restarted using the following commands
# service tomcat6 stop
# service tomcat6 start
# service tomcat6 restart

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