Installing Tomcat on Solaris 10

1. Download current version of Tomcat:

• Unzip to desired directory. A good place to install it is in the /opt/ directory.

# cd /opt/
# unzip apache-tomcat-5.5.15.zip

• Make a symbolic link in the /opt/ to this directory to allow for easy upgrades.

# ln -s /opt/apache-tomcat-5.5.15/ tomcat

• Set executable permissions on scripts

# cd /opt/tomcat/bin
# chmod +x *.sh

• In order to allow people to view your pages without the :8080 port, edit the /opt/tomcat/conf/server.xml file and change the connector port from 8080 to HTTP Server port 80. The line should look like this:

<Connector port="8080" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"

• WARNING: Since you are using a port below 1024, the server must always be started as root or someone with root privileges. This is potentially insecure. If you would like to run it as a tomcat user, follow these instructions:
• Create a tomcat user:

# groupadd tomcat
# useradd -g tomcat -d /opt/tomcat tomcat
# passwd tomcat
# chown -R tomcat:tomcat /opt/tomcat
# chown -R tomcat:tomcat /opt/apache-tomcat-5.5.15

• To start tomcat everytime your machine boots up, create a daemon script: /etc/rc3.d/S99tomcat.

#!/sbin/sh

JAVA_HOME=/usr/java
CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat

export JAVA_HOME CATALINA_HOME

case "$1" in

start)
   $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
   ;;

stop)
   $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh
   ;;

restart)
   $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh
   $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
   ;;

*)
   echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
   exit 1
   ;;

esac

References

• Installation
  • http://www.linux-sxs.org/internet_serving/c140.html

• Starting Tomcat automatically at boot:
  • http://wiki.astrogrid.org/bin/view/Astrogrid/InstallTomcat
  • http://gridrm.org/admin/auto-start-tomcat.html
  • http://www.raibledesigns.com/tomcat/boot-howto.html
  • http://wiki.astrogrid.org/bin/view/Astrogrid/InstallTomcat

• Changing the default home page:
  • http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/HowTo

-- JesseSuen - 03 Mar 2006