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Webservers
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=> Server is a software which is used to run web applications.
=> Users can access our web application by sending request to server
=> Users will use client s/w to send request to server
Ex: Browser
=> Server is responsible to handle user requests & response
=> We have several servers in the market to run our web applications
1) Tomcat
2) JBoss
3) Glassfish
4) Weblogic
5) WebSphere
6) IIS etc..
Note: To run web application, server is mandatory.
=> The process of executing web application by using server is called as
Deployment.
Build => Compile + Test + Package
Deployment => Execution
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Tomcat Server
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=> Tomcat is free & open source s/w
=> Tomcat is a web server developed by Apache Organization
=> Tomcat server developed using Java language
Note: To run tomcat server, java should be installed.
=> Tomcat server is used to run Java Web Applications
=> Tomcat supports multiple operating systems
=> Tomcat server runs on 8080 port number (we can change it)
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Tomcat Setup In Linux
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=> Create Linux VM using Amazon Linux AMI in AWS Cloud
=> Connect to Linux VM using mobaxterm / Putty/ Git Bash
=> Install maven software
$ sudo yum install maven
Note: When we install maven, java s/w also gets installed automatically.
=> We can download tomcat software from its offical website
URL : https://tomcat.apache.org/download-90.cgi
=> Download tomcat server tar file
$ wget https://dlcdn.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-9/v9.0.89/bin/apache-tomcat-
9.0.89.tar.gz
=> Extract tar file
$ tar -xvf <tar-file-name>
$ cd <tomcat-dir-name>
$ ls -l
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Tomcat Server directory structure
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1) bin : It contains files to start & stop server (windows : bat , Linux : sh)
windows: startup.bat & shutdown.bat
Linux : statup.sh & shutdown.sh
2) conf : It contains tomcat server configuration files
Ex: server.xml, tomcat-users.xml etc...
3) webapps : It is called as deployment folder. We will keep war files here.
4) logs : Server log messages will be stored here
5) lib : It contains libraries required for server (jars)
6) temp : Temporary files will be created here (We can delete them)
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Web app deployment process
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=> Create Maven web application in ec2-user home directory
$ mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=in.ashokit -DartifactId=my-web-app -
DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp -DarchetypeVersion=1.4 -
DinteractiveMode=false
=> Package maven project as war file using 'mvn clean package' goal
=> Copy project war file into tomcat server webapps folder
$ cp <app/target/warfile> <tomcat/webapps>
=> Start Tomcat server using below command (it is present in tomcat/bin directory)
$ sh startup.sh
Note: Enable Tomcat server port number 8080 in Ec2 VM Security Group Inbound Rules.
=> Access our web application using browser
URL : http://ec2-public-ip:8080/my-web-app
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Enable Tomcat Admin Console Access
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=> By default the Host Manager is only accessible from a browser running on the
same machine as Tomcat. If you wish to modify this restriction, you'll need to edit
the Host Manager's context.xml file.
=> File Location : <tomcat-folder>/webapps/manager/META-INF/context.xml
=> In Manager context.xml file, change <Valve> section like below (allow attribute
value changed)
<Context antiResourceLocking="false" privileged="true" >
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve" allow=".*" />
</Context>
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Add tomact users in "<tomact>/conf/tomact-users.xml" file like below
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<role rolename="manager-gui" />
<role rolename="manager-script" />
<role rolename="admin-gui" />
<user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="manager-gui" />
<user username="admin" password="admin" roles="manager-gui,admin-gui,manager-
script"/>
=> Once above changes completed, then start tomcat server and access tomcat admin
console in browser.
URL : http://public-ip:8080/
Note: Then click on 'Manager App' and login with credentials to perform deploy &
undeploy.
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How to change tomcat server port number ?
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=> Tomcat server default port is 8080
=> We can change this port number using server.xml file
File location : tomcat-dir/conf/server.xml
=> After changing the port number stop and start tomcat server
=> Enable new port number in EC2 VM Security Group inbound rules.
Server URL : http://public-ip:port-num/
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Tomcat - Summary
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1) What is Server
2) What is Tomcat
3) Tomcat Setup
4) Tomcat Directory structure
5) war file deployment
6) Tomcat Admin Console
7) Port Number change
