Tomcat Installation in Redhat
1. Create a Redhat Ec2 Server and assign proper security group
Open Port
Http - 80 (Anywhere) and
8080 (Temporary basis and for MyIP)
2. Check if this is in REPO
[root@ip-172-31-43-74 ~]# yum list | grep tomcat
3. Install it manually in the server after confirming from your
manager
i) Go to the URL - https://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi
ii) Click on Copy Link
iii) Download it in Server using wget (if it is not there, install wget)
wget https://mirrors.estointernet.in/apache/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.5.60/bin/apache-
tomcat-8.5.70.tar.gz
iv) Move this file apache-tomcat-8.5.70.tar.gz to /etc and untar it
v) List the binary which is untar
tar xvfz apache-tomcat-8.5.66.tar.gz
vi) Try to start Tomcat but it might fail because you don’t have JAVA installed,
[root@ip-172-31-43-74 bin]# pwd
/etc/apache-tomcat-8.5.70/bin
[root@ip-172-31-43-74 bin]# ./startup.sh or sh startup.sh
Neither the JAVA_HOME nor the JRE_HOME environment variable is defined
At least one of these environment variable is needed to run this program
vii) Install Java
[root@ip-172-31-43-74 bin]# yum install java-1.8* -y
viii) Start the Tomcat
cd /etc/apache-tomcat-8.5.70/bin
./startup.sh
Tomcat starts at 8080 port by default-
[root@ip-172-31-43-74 webapps]# netstat -anp|grep 8080
tcp6 0 0 :::8080 :::* LISTEN 13799/java
9) cd /etc/apache-tomcat-8.5.70/webapps and check if ROOT and manager is present or not.
10) Try to open the manager page from Browser
http://13.234.115.11:8080/manager/
11) By Default it will blocked from remote address, so we need to update context.xml of
manager to fix it.
[root@ip-172-31-43-74 manager]# pwd
/etc/apache-tomcat-8.5.70/webapps/manager
[root@ip-172-31-43-74 manager]# find . -name context.xml
./META-INF/context.xml
cp ./META-INF/context.xml ./META-INF/context.xml-bkp
12) Update this file. Comment the Value. Take a backup before updating it using ‘cp’ command
Check the diff with original Backup
13) Now check the URL it will work and you should also update the tomcat-users.xml
cd /etc/apache-tomcat-8.5.70/conf
cp tomcat-users.xml tomcat-users.xml-backup
vim
update as below with entries here-
<role rolename="admin"/>
<role rolename="admin-gui"/>
<role rolename="admin-script"/>
<role rolename="manager"/>
<role rolename="manager-gui"/>
<role rolename="manager-script"/>
<role rolename="manager-jmx"/>
<role rolename="manager-status"/>
<user name="admin" password="adminadmin" roles="admin,manager,admin-
gui,admin-script,manager-gui,manager-script,manager-jmx,manager-status" />
14) Now restart
You can create a Soft link (Optional and Highly Recommended)
cd /etc/
ln -s apache-tomcat-8.5.70 tomcat
ls -ltr
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 20 Dec 5 15:45 tomcat -> apache-tomcat-8.5.70
cd /etc/tomcat # CATALINA_HOME (TOMCAT_HOME)
ProxyPass
1) Enable Selinux Security (REDHAT)
setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect on
2. Install Apache
yum install httpd -y
export APACHE_HOME=/etc/httpd #Command to set OS ENV Variable
3. cd $APACHE_HOME/conf.d
[root@ip-172-31-43-74 conf.d]# cat proxypass.conf
ProxyPass /SampleWebApp123 http://localhost:8080/SampleWebApp123/
ProxyPassReverse /SampleWebApp123 http://localhost:8080/SampleWebApp123/
4. List the files
[root@ip-172-31-43-74 conf.d]# ls -ltr
total 20
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 516 Jun 15 11:49 welcome.conf
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1252 Jun 15 11:49 userdir.conf
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2926 Jun 15 11:51 autoindex.conf
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 400 Jun 15 11:55 README
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 139 Dec 5 08:18 proxypass.conf
4. Restart the Services and it will work
5. Block the 8080 port now for Public and you will see still your Web Application will work.
