Apache Tomcat 9 Installation on Centos 8

Pre-Requirement:

Update repo details

sudo sed -i 's/mirrorlist/#mirrorlist/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-*

sudo sed -i 's|#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org|baseurl=http://vault.centos.org|g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-*

Please Follow below instructions to install and configure Tomcat on CentOS 8 machine

1)  Install epel-release.

sudo yum install epel-release -y

2) Install open-jdk

sudo yum install java-11-openjdk -y

3)  Download Apache Tomcat 

  cd /opt/        sudo wget https://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-9/v9.0.50/bin/apache-tomcat-9.0.50.tar.gz
  sudo tar -zxvf apache-tomcat-9.0.50.tar.gz   sudo mv apache-tomcat-9.0.50 tomcat
  sudo chmod -R 777 tomcat
  sudo chown -R vagrant:vagrant tomcat

4) Configure Apache Tomcat 9 as system service. 

    Create tomcat service file and add below content.

    sudo vi /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service

[Unit]

Description=Tomcat 9

After=network.target

[Service]

Type=forking

User=vagrant

Group=vagrant

Environment="JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jre"

Environment="JAVA_OPTS=-Djava.security.egd=file:///dev/urandom"

Environment="CATALINA_BASE=/opt/tomcat"

Environment="CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat"

Environment="CATALINA_PID=/opt/tomcat/temp/tomcat.pid"

ExecStart=/opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh

ExecStop=/opt/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh

[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target

  

5) Start tomcat service

sudo systemctl start tomcat

6) Enable tomcat service

sudo systemctl enable tomcat