Tomcat Installation and Folder structure

Tomcat Installation:

1.       Basically all operating systems are understand only binary language , As we discussed earlier post that Tomcat have J2ee , servlet  container.

2.       This is Java based Web Application server .

3.       For this reason we need to install JDK before running Tomcat file

4.       Download the support JDK based on Tomcat version.

Download JDK: Find the JDK for Linux 64bit here  jdk-8u161-linux-x64.tar.gz

                             Find the JDK for Windows 64bit here jdk-8u161-windows-x64.exe

Download Tomcat: Find the Tomcat here  and download the required version.

If you can able to ping Google from your Linux , You can download with wget command.

Step 1:

Sudo wget http://www-us.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-9/v9.0.1/bin/apache-tomcat-9.0.1.tar.gz

Step2:

tar -zxf apache-tomcat-9.0.1.tar

Step3:

cd apache-tomcat-9.0.1

Important files and folders:

apache-tomcat
Work	Logs	Webapps	Running.txt	Release Notes	Notice	License	Conf	Temp	Lib	bin

Work: In side you can find Catalina folder, this is the Work temp location where the application code get stored.

Logs: This is the location all Application logs gets stored, below are the log file formats

catalina.out

catalina.log

Localhost_access_log.2018-03-06.txt

Running.txt: Running The Apache Tomcat 8.5 Servlet/JSP Container Apache Tomcat 8.5 requires a      Java Standard Edition Runtime Environment (JRE) version 7 or later.

"RUNNING.txt" 470L, 15946C

Webapps: This is the Location where all java Application’s get deployed .When you place the code this location server automatically picks the code and deployed into the server

Release Notes: It shows the Version of the Tomcat and JDk along with can see what all API’s installed with this tomcat version.

Notice: It contain some useful info of the Tomcat

License: We can see the Licence info in this file

Conf: This i the very important folder, where Tomcat main server.xml file resides.

[root@hintech conf]# pwd

/opt/apache-tomcat-8.5.23/conf
[root@hintech conf]# ls -lrt
total 228
-rw-------. 1 root root 169371 Sep 28 16:01 web.xml
-rw-------. 1 root root   2633 Sep 28 16:01 tomcat-users.xsd
-rw-------. 1 root root   3622 Sep 28 16:01 logging.properties
-rw-------. 1 root root   2358 Sep 28 16:01 jaspic-providers.xsd
-rw-------. 1 root root   1149 Sep 28 16:01 jaspic-providers.xml
-rw-------. 1 root root   1338 Sep 28 16:01 context.xml
-rw-------. 1 root root   7376 Sep 28 16:01 catalina.properties
-rw-------. 1 root root  13824 Sep 28 16:01 catalina.policy
-rw-------. 1 root root   2364 Mar  6 06:53 tomcat-users.xml
drwxr-x---. 9 root root   4096 Mar  6 20:38 Catalina
-rw-------. 1 root root   8166 Mar  8 10:21 server.xml
[root@hintech conf]#

Temp: Temp location

Lib: All supported jar files are located in this location

Bin:  version.sh

startup.sh – To start the server and it uses default 8080 port

shutdown.sh – To stop the server and it uses default 8005 port

catalina.sh -