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==How to install Tomcat6 Server on Centos6==
 
==How to install Tomcat6 Server on Centos6==

Revision as of 19:23, 30 January 2014

How to install Tomcat6 on Centos6

How to install Tomcat6 Server on Centos6

Tomcat is an Opensource webserver and used for Java Servelet and JSP web applications. It is a product of Apache Foundation. It is like Apache HTTP Server. To run Tomcat Webserver in a linux server we need to install JAVA in that machine. In this tutorial I will show you how to install and configure JAVA and Apache Tomcat in a linux server

Cento's default repo has Tomcat6 available for install

yum install tomcat6 tomcat6-webapps tomcat6-docs-webapp tomcat6-admin-webapps

By default Tomcat6 will run over port 8080, and if yo are using this to serve your site, you will want to change this to port 80

vim /etc/tomcat6/tomcat6.conf

Look for #CONNECTOR_PORT="8080" and change it to CONNECTOR_PORT="80"

Now lets start up Tomcat6

/etc/init.d/tomcat6 start

or

service tomcat6 start

Let make sure it starts on bootup

chkconfig tomcat6 on

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