tomcat installation and configuration guide

Tomcat installation guide


1. download tomcat from http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi , please download stable version.
2. uncompress the downloaded installation file to /usr.
3. go to the conf directory and modify the connector port in web.xml if necessary.
4. change tomcat-users.xml if want to access by browser
example:
<tomcat-users>
<user username="both" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,role1,manager-gui"/>
</tomcat-users>

5. config the Environment Variable as follows:
a. vi /etc/profile
b. CATALINA_BASE = /usr/apache-tomcat-*.*.*
  CATALINA_HOME = /usr/apache-tomcat-*.*.*
c. export  CATALINA_BASE
  export  CATALINA_HOME
d. source /etc/profile

6. use ./startup.sh to run.






configure more than one tomcat on one server by following steps:


1. uncompress the installation file to a new directory, for example, /usr/tomcatServer2
2. add two new environment variables :
a. vi /etc/profile
b. CATALINA_BASE2 = /usr/tomcatServer2
  CATALINA_HOME2 = /usr/tomcatServer2
c. export  CATALINA_BASE2
  export  CATALINA_HOME2
d. source /etc/profile
3. edit tomcatServer2/bin/catalina.sh, change all CATALINA_BASE and CATALINA_HOME into CATALINA_BASE2 and CATALINA_HOME2 respectively 
4. edit tomcatServer2/conf/server.xml, change all the port number from 8*** to 9***


example:
<Connector port="9080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" 
               connectionTimeout="20000" 
               redirectPort="9443" URIEncoding='UTF-8'/>
    =====================        
    <Connector port="9009" protocol="AJP/1.3" protocolHandlerClassName="org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler" redirectPort="9443" URIEncoding='UTF-8'/>
5. cd to /usr/tomcatServer2/bin, then use command "sh startup.sh" to run tomcat.


reference:
http://www.cnblogs.com/itolssy/archive/2008/08/27/1278041.html