java install tomcat as service

Question

I'm planning to develop an application installer which, as a part of installation, installs Apache Tomcat on Linux. Does anyone know how can I programmatically install Tomcat as service on Linux. Best

Solution 1

If you have Tomcat installed already, you probably need to put a start up script for Tomcat in /etc/init.d

This article has a decent start up script.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux/installing-tomcat-6-on-ubuntu/

Solution 2

Tomcat7 (Stable release 2011 January) For Debian-base: Tested in Ubuntu 14.04.

Install Tomcat7:

sudo apt-get install tomcat7 tomcat7-docs tomcat7-admin 
sudo apt-get install libtomcat7-java tomcat7-common tomcat7-examples

Start the tomcat server:

sudo service tomcat7 restart

Check whether the the tomcat is running or not by access the URL http:/127.0.0.1:8080 in browser or in terminal:

w3m http://127.0.0.1:8080

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Solution 3

If you are on a debian-base distribution, just type

sudo apt-get install tomcat6 tomcat6-admin tomcat6-examples

and you'll have a tomcat fully functional (example for Ubuntu 10.04)