Comments on: Installing Tomcat 6 on Ubuntu

By: vikitor

vikitor — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:26:03 +0000

Thank you very much!, This how to has proven to be extremely useful.

By: Tudor

Tudor — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:48:37 +0000

Isn’t Tomcat in the repositories? I’m using Jaunty and a simple sudo-apt get install tomcat6 did the job for me!

By: bilal

bilal — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:41:08 +0000

great work……its really helpful

By: Alberto

Alberto — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:16:39 +0000

It took me forever to find the answer to fix autostart on ubuntu 9.04.

Here it is:

1. First remove old symlinks with sudo update-rc.d -f tomcat remove

2. Execute the follwoing: sudo update-rc.d tomcat start 99 2 3 4 5 S . stop 0 1 6 .

Credit goes to dumb.coder at http://ubuntuforums.org/showth.....+autostart

By: tevang

tevang — Sat, 23 May 2009 20:42:56 +0000

Whoever is using Netbeans IDE on Ubuntu, don’t try to install Tomcat6 that comes with Netbeans distribution! This is the right way to install Apache-tomcat6. Thanks to the author!

By: Bucky24

Bucky24 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:12:23 +0000

Oh well, I can’t get it post the tags…

http://www.netadmintools.com/art340.html

Here is the site I found that gave the correct usages.

By: Bucky24

Bucky24 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:11:45 +0000

it left out the xml tags….

By: Bucky24

Bucky24 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:10:29 +0000

I am not sure if this has been covered in an earlier post, but the way given to set up the tomcat-users.xml file did not work for me.

This did, however:

The role tags were added automatically when I restarted the server, but I don’t know if this will happen for everyone, so I am leaving them in.

-Bucky24

By: kinglok

kinglok — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:10:11 +0000

I can’t agree olaf no more. He really saves my life in starting up tomcat as unprivileged user.

What’s more I start up tomcat by using djb daemontools, here comes the commands and scripts:

useradd tomcat -g nogroup -d /java/tomcat6/ -s /bin/false -p’*’ -r
useradd tomcatlog -g nogroup -d /tmp -s /bin/false -p’*’ -r

cd /java/tomcat
chown -R tomcat webapps temp logs work conf

mkdir -p /var/service/
cd /var/service/
mkdir -m 1755 tomcat
cd tomcat
vim run

———————————————
#!/bin/sh
exec 2>&1
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun
export JAVA_OPTS=”-Xmx1024M -Xms256M -server”
export TOMCAT_HOME=/java/tomcat6
echo “*** Starting tomcat…”
exec setuidgid tomcat ${TOMCAT_HOME}/bin/catalina.sh run
———————————————–

chmod 755 run
mkdir -m 755 log
chown tomcatlog:nogroup log
cd log
wget -O run http://qmail.jms1.net/scripts/service-any-log-run
vim run
——————————————–
VQ=”/var/qmail”

exec env – PATH=”$VQ/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin” \
setuidgid tomcatlog multilog t n1024 s1048576 ./main \
‘-*’ ‘+*ver: status:*’ =lstatus
————————————————
chmod 755 run

/etc/init.d/tomcat stop

ln -s /var/service/tomcat /service/tomcat
sleep 5
svstat /service/tomcat/ /service/tomcat/log/

By: marius

marius — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:53:42 +0000

Do you know if runlevels have changed in Jaunty? I cannot get the script to start automatically, even though it’s been working fine in previous versions. It starts fine in a terminal, just not on computer startup.