How to install Tomcat in Amazon Web Services EC2

Question

I have created an instance in Amazon web services, and I have connected to the server using putty through ssh.

But I do not know how to install tomcat 8 in amazon ec2. Please help me with this.

Solution 1

You can use yum tool to install the tomcat8 packer from amazon default repository.

The command is: yum install tomcat8-webapps tomcat8-admin-webapps

Solution 2

On Amazon Linux 2 AMI:

1. List extra packages (you will see tomcat8 versions):

   $ amazon-linux-extras list

2. Install extra packages:

   $ sudo amazon-linux-extras install tomcat8.5

3. Start tomcat service:

   $ sudo systemctl start tomcat

4. Create index file:

    $ cd /usr/share/tomcat/webapps
    $ sudo mkdir ROOT
    $ cd ROOT/
    $ sudo vi index.html #add some HTML content

Next you could view your site at localhost:8080

Solution 3

For Amazon AMI 2, Tomcat is available in Amazon Linux Extra topic "tomcat8.5"

To use, run

# sudo amazon-linux-extras install tomcat8.5

Learn more at https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-2/faqs/#Amazon_Linux_Extras

Solution 4

If you also want to know the help documentation, the command is: sudo yum install tomcat8-webapps tomcat8-docs-webapp tomcat8-admin-webapps

Solution 5

STEPS:

1. first check whether java has to be installed on your instance or not.
2. if not, install java: yum install java -y
3. go to the tomcat-Apache.org site, and copy the link to the tar.gz file
4. open the terminal and execute this command: sudo wget <tar.gz path>
5. unzip the tar file: tar -vxzf Apache-tomcat-xxxx.tar.gz
6. setup users and port number (by default 8080)
7. then shutdown and start the tomcat server: ./shutdown.sh and ./startup.sh

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