Introduction

Install Tomcat 9 in the environment where CentOS-8.1.1911-x86_64 was installed by "minimum installation". JAVA must be installed in advance. Please refer to here for installing JAVA.

User created

useradd -s /sbin/nologin tomcat

download

curl -O http://ftp.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/pub/network/apache/tomcat/tomcat-9/v9.0.34/bin/apache-tomcat-9.0.34.tar.gz

Extract / move files

tar xvzf apache-tomcat-9.0.34.tar.gz -C /opt
ln -s /opt/apache-tomcat-9.0.34 /opt/apache-tomcat
chown -R tomcat. /opt/apache-tomcat-9.0.34

Pass through

echo "export CATALINA_HOME=/opt/apache-tomcat" > /etc/profile.d/tomcat.sh
source /etc/profile

Create a service definition file

vi /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service

`tomcat.service`


[Unit]
Description=Apache Tomcat 9
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
User=tomcat
Group=tomcat
Type=oneshot
PIDFile=/opt/apache-tomcat/tomcat.pid
RemainAfterExit=yes

ExecStart=/opt/apache-tomcat/bin/startup.sh
ExecStop=/opt/apache-tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh
ExecReStart=/opt/apache-tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh;/opt/apache-tomcat/bin/startup.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Authorization

chmod 755 /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service

Firewall settings

firewall-cmd --add-port=8080/tcp --zone=public --permanent
systemctl restart firewalld

Start-up

systemctl start tomcat

Reboot

systemctl restart tomcat

Stop

systemctl stop tomcat

Auto start setting

systemctl enable tomcat

Version confirmation

/opt/apache-tomcat/bin/version.sh

Using CATALINA_BASE:   /opt/apache-tomcat
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /opt/apache-tomcat
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /opt/apache-tomcat/temp
Using JRE_HOME:        /usr
Using CLASSPATH:       /opt/apache-tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/apache-tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
NOTE: Picked up JDK_JAVA_OPTIONS:  --add-opens=java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.io=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.rmi/sun.rmi.transport=ALL-UNNAMED
Server version: Apache Tomcat/9.0.34
Server built:   Apr 3 2020 12:02:52 UTC
Server number:  9.0.34.0
OS Name:        Linux
OS Version:     4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64
Architecture:   amd64
JVM Version:    11.0.7+10
JVM Vendor:     AdoptOpenJDK

Operation check

http://hostname:8080/docs/ It is OK if you access to and the following page is displayed.

Summary

You have successfully installed it.

[CENTOS] Install tomcat 9 on Cent OS 8