Comments on: How to install Tomcat and Java 6 on CentOS 5.2

By: at

at — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:05:26 +0000

small thing that I noticed, that the command for adding tomcat into chkconfig is:

/sbin/chkconfig –add tomcat

Just do /sbin/chkconfig, and it will show you all three options

By: at

at — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:02:17 +0000

worked like a charm, thanks!

By: Iago Rubio

Iago Rubio — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:10:07 +0000

Thanks for the tips, they are really useful.

> I know Linux guru, all those thing can e done with a single compact
> command line, but it take more time to read the man pages compared
> to run two separate and clear commands

The command is the same you use, but with a “z” at the end of the tar arguments to invoke gzip, and a “j” to invoke bz2.

tar xvfz apache-tomcat-5.5.26.tar.gz
tar xvfj apache-tomcat-5.5.26.tar.bz2

The same for compressing:

tar cvfz apache-dir.tar.gz apache-dir
tar cvfj apache-dir.tar.bz2 apache-dir

Guess you don’t need to read the man pages now

Hope this helps.

By: Stefano

Stefano — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:10:04 +0000

Use iptable to route port 80 on 8080 and run tomcat with a low privileges user.

By: Hueoogle

Hueoogle — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:36:28 +0000

DO you realize running tomcat has a listener thread and a worker thread. The listener hands off the same user as from what it accepted the connection. Lets see how long your box runs since you are letting EVERY user have ROOT ACCESS that connects to even an index.html page. Funny guys

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:07:36 +0000

Ok, I’d like to make a really important note here. Don’t forget to ensure your firewall has port 8080 open if you’re leaving the Tomcat defaults as they are. Yes. I’m an idiot. Yes. That was my problem. Thank you, good night.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:59:38 +0000

I’ve run through this, but the problem is when I try to start tomcat I get nothing:

[root@web1 tomcat]# /etc/init.d/tomcat start
Starting Tomcat service: Using CATALINA_BASE: /usr/tomcat
Using CATALINA_HOME: /usr/tomcat
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/tomcat/temp
Using JRE_HOME: /usr/java/latest

It doesn’t report an error, but it doesn’t start either! Anyone got any ideas?

By: Syl

Syl — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:45:35 +0000

Hello,

About your daemon script, tomcat run behind a java startup command. Then to see status, you have to use something like:
status java | sed “s,java,tomcat,”

By: Stefano

Stefano — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:45:33 +0000

I prefer iptable to avoid to manage an apache and tomcat with native librarie can be an efficient web server. Clearly under heavy load dur to static content (like images) an apache can make the difference.
I manage a lot of virtual hosts, so having only tomcat I can configure only it. About SSL, i use the ssl connector of tomcat without problems.

By: Malky

Malky — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:05:51 +0000

Great job Stefano, Will try this tonight – are you saying that you prefer the iptable method rather than mod_proxy (I have Apache 2.2 on port 80 at the moment). I will need to configure ssl in the future for my tomcat requests and thought it might be better to use mod_proxy. Any suggestions.

Thanks,

Malky