Apache Tomcat Server Installation as a Service - Linux - Teach Bharat - 9588689939

   Install Tomcat as a Service

#Login as a root user

sudo su -

yum install wget unzip -y

cd /opt
wget https://downloads.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-9/v9.0.44/bin/apache-tomcat-9.0.44.zip
unzip apache-tomcat-9.0.44.zip

chmod u+x /opt/apache-tomcat-9.0.44/bin/*.sh

mv apache-tomcat-9.0.44 tomcat9

#Create a system user called tomcat.

useradd -r tomcat

cp -r /opt/tomcat9 /usr/local/tomcat9

#Create a file called tomcat.service
 

vi /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service


[Unit]
Description=Apache Tomcat Server
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
Type=forking

User=tomcat
Group=tomcat

Environment=CATALINA_PID=/usr/local/tomcat9/temp/tomcat.pid
Environment=CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat9
Environment=CATALINA_BASE=/usr/local/tomcat9

ExecStart=/usr/local/tomcat9/bin/catalina.sh start
ExecStop=/usr/local/tomcat9/bin/catalina.sh stop

RestartSec=10
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

#Reload the systemd
systemctl daemon-reload
 

#Enable the  tomcat service

systemctl enable tomcat.service

#Start the tomcat service

 systemctl start tomcat.service

# Check the tomcat service

systemctl status tomcat.service

#netstat -tunlap

#ps -fax | grep tomcat #vi /usr/local/tomcat9/webapps/manager/META-INF/context.xml #Comment the below lines <!--            <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve"   allow="127\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+|::1|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1" />       -->