Configuration of tomcat 4.1.30

Packages required for tomcat-4.1.30.tar.gz:

Step1:
Extract the packages in at /usr/local directory

tar
-zxvf j2sdk-1_4_2_19-linux-i586.bin

tar
-zxvf jakarta-tomcat-4.1.30.tar.gz

Step2:
Now create a soft link to tomcat directory

ln -s jakarta-tomcat-4.1.30

tomcat

Step3:
Now edit the file catalina.sh at /usr/local/tomcat/bin/

vi

/usr/local/tomcat/bin/catalina.sh

Add the following lines below the comment lines

JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true"

export JAVA_HOME JAVA_OPTS

Step4:
Now you can run tomcat from the root using

/usr/local/tomcat/bin/startup.sh

/usr/local/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh

Step5:
Now edit the catalina.policy at
/usr/local/tomcat/conf/catalina.policy

/usr/local/tomcat/conf/catalina.policy

Add the following lines after the below line permission

java.lang.RuntimePermission getAttribute

grant

{

Step6:
For running tomcat from the user end:

Create a user whom you want to give permission to run tomcat e.g test

useradd test

passwd test

Step7:
Now change the ownership of tomcat directory to user test

chown -R test:test
/usr/local/tomcat

Step8:
Login through user test

Create launcher for tomcat
startup

OR

execute
/usr/local/tomcat/bin/startup.sh from terminal

Create launcher for tomcat
shutdown

OR

execute
/usr/local/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh from terminal