To check status of Tomcat server in Linux

Question

I need to know whether Tomcat 7.0.2.3 is on or not.

I got an error page that shows this message:

HTTP Status 404 - /cas/login

type Status report

 message /cas/login

description The requested resource (/cas/login) is not available.
 Apache Tomcat/7.0.23

I need to check the status and start the service of Tomcat in Linux. I have tried:

#/bin/startup.sh
#rctomcat7 start

But all these are not working.

Solution

Like others have pointed out, if you are receiving an HTTP standard response code of 404 then it means that Tomcat is up.

But to answer your question, you can try

 #rctomcat7 status

Comments

[Timo]

I have Ubuntu 13/04, Tomcat 8 extracted as zip (first download) to my home folder. I do not have a init.d script, neither your idea Kevin is working. I start and stop with catalina.sh which works. But how check status?

[Jakub Jirutka]

Just install it from a package with proper init script. If you don’t have Tomcat package in your distro, then try to find any third-part init script or write your own. It’s not so hard. The scripts distributed with Tomcat aren’t good for production.