Install - SuSE Linux

Install

Install Tomcat using YaST in SuSE

Configuration

Web apps folder:

/usr/share/tomcat5/webapps
/srv/www/tomcat5/base/webapps

To change the port number edit:

/etc/tomcat5/base/server.xml

Here is a diff output showing how I changed the port from 8080 to 8081:

myserver:~ # diff /home/patrickk/temp/server.xml /etc/tomcat5/base/server.xml
92c92
<     <Connector port="8080"

>     <Connector port="8081"

Logging

The log output is to:

/usr/share/tomcat5/logs/
/srv/www/tomcat5/base/logs/
/var/log/tomcat5/base/catalina.out

Manual Install

Download:

jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9.tar.gz

Extract to:

/usr/local/bin/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/

For compatibility with Java 1.4, download:

jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9-compat.tar.gz

Extract to:

/usr/local/bin/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/

Start

To start Tomcat (as root):

/usr/local/bin/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/bin/startup.sh

Yep! Is working.

Stop

To stop Tomcat

/usr/local/bin/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/bin/shutdown.sh