TomcatInstallation

Installing Tomcat on Linux

Contents:

1. Prerequisites
2. Tomcat installation

See also: ScientificLinux

1. Prerequisites

• Java (1.5.0 or later for Tomcat 5.5). Tomcat requies that the JAVA_HOME variable points to a jdk installation, not a jre.

Java 1.5.0 installation instructions are here: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/install-linux.html

2. Tomcat installation

See: http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/setup.html

• Download the Tomcat jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9.tar.gz file to a temporary location

• Change to the download directory, and unpack the tar file: tar xvfz jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9.tar.gz.

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-- GrahamKlyne 2005-09-21 15:43:15