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First Sun JDK 5 need to be installed. It can be installed from Debian repository with unstable software
First you need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list file
#vi /etc/apt/sources.list
Add the following lines
# for sun-java packages in unstable
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable non-free
Save and exit the file.
Now you need to Update apt using the following command
#apt-get update
Install jdk using the following command
#apt-get install sun-java5-jdk
Check the java version using the following command
#java -version
Output looks similar to the following
java version “1.5.0_10″
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_10-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_10-b03, mixed mode, sharing)
Installing Apache Tomcat
Install Tomcat using the following commands
#apt-get install tomcat5.5
#apt-get install tomcat5.5-admin
#apt-get install tomcat5.5-webapps
To verify that Tomcat is running just navigate to http://localhost:8180/ in your browser (make sure you have replaced ‘localhost’ with your server ip or name)
You can start/stop or restart Tomcat using following command:
#/etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 [start | stop | restart]
Configuring ‘admin’ and ‘manager’ applications
You need to configure some user to have admin and manager roles. For example you can do it with ‘tomcat’ user. Stop server using the following command.
#/etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 stop
Now you need to edit /var/lib/tomcat5.5/conf/tomcat-users.xml file to look like below
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<tomcat-users>
<role rolename="admin"/>
<role rolename="manager"/>
<role rolename="tomcat"/>
<user username="tomcat"
password=”tomcatpassword”
roles="tomcat,admin,manager"/>
</tomcat-users>
Save and exit the file.
Start tomcat using the following command
#/etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 start
Now you can use manager application at http://localhost:8180/manager/html.
Your user will be ‘tomcat’ and password will be ‘tomcatpassword’
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January 17th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
I followded those instructions and was able to run tomcat admin/manager (great!!!).
But when I deployed my web app, the app failed to start. The only error I can see in catalina.log is:
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
How can I get more details about what causes the failure???
Thanks!
-Yong