OpenMRS - debian 9/mySQL 5.6/Java 1.8/Tomcat 7

Debian 9 Stretch - Netinstall, with ssh and standard utilities only

Create openmrs as the standard user
   apt update
   apt install wget curl zip unzip gnupg sudo unattended-upgrades
Add user openmrs to sudo group
  usermod -aG sudo openmrs
Exit root and login as openmrs
  cd /opt
  sudo wget https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql-apt-config_0.8.15-1_all.deb
  sudo dpkg -i mysql-apt-config_0.8.15-1_all.deb
(Choose mySQL 5.6)
May have to repeat the above after running sudo apt upgrade
  sudo apt update
  sudo apt install mysql-server
  sudo mysql_secure_installation
  source /etc/environment
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  sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk openjdk-8-jre
  sudo vi /etc/environment
(Use nano instead of vi, if preferred)
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
JRE_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre

    source /etc/environment
    sudo wget https://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.109/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.109.tar.gz
    sudo tar xzf apache-tomcat-7.0.109.tar.gz
    sudo mv apache-tomcat-7.0.109 tomcat7
    sudo echo "export CATALINA_HOME="/opt/tomcat7"" >> ~/.bashrc
    source ~/.bashrc
    sudo groupadd tomcat
    sudo useradd -s /bin/false -g tomcat -d /opt/tomcat7 tomcat
    cd /opt/tomcat7
    sudo chown -R tomcat:tomcat bin conf lib logs temp webapps work
(Anomoly)
    su
     chmod g+r /opt/tomcat7/conf/*
    exit

    sudo vi /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service

[Unit]
Description=Apache Tomcat Web Application Container
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking

Environment=JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
Environment=CATALINA_PID=/opt/tomcat7/temp/tomcat.pid
Environment=CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat7
Environment=CATALINA_BASE=/opt/tomcat7
Environment='CATALINA_OPTS=-Xmx1536M -Xms512M -server -XX:+UseParallelGC'
Environment='JAVA_OPTS=-Djava.awt.headless=true -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom'

ExecStart=/opt/tomcat7/bin/startup.sh
ExecStop=/opt/tomcat7/bin/shutdown.sh

User=tomcat
Group=tomcat
UMask=0007
RestartSec=10
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

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     sudo systemctl daemon-reload
     sudo systemctl enable tomcat


     sudo vi /opt/tomcat7/bin/setenv.sh
export CATALINA_PID="/opt/tomcat7/work/tomcat.pid"
export CATALINA_TMPDIR="/opt/tomcat7/temp"

     sudo chmod 755 /opt/tomcat7/bin/setenv.sh

     sudo systemctl start tomcat
Check tomcat is running with http://yourserver.com:8080

     sudo vi /opt/tomcat7/conf/tomcat-users.xml
<role rolename="admin-gui"/>
<role rolename="admin-script"/>
<role rolename="manager-status"/>
<role rolename="manager-script"/>
<role rolename="manager-gui"/>
<user username="myadminuser" password="mysecretpassword" roles="manager-gui,admin-gui"/>

    sudo vi $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/manager/META-INF/context.xml
  <!--
  <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve"
         allow="127\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+|::1|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1" />
  -->

     sudo systemctl restart tomcat
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Optional
     cd /home/openmrs
(user account created during OS install)
     mkdir repo
     cd repo
     mkdir platform2.4
     cd platform2.4
     wget -O openmrs.war https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/openmrs/releases/OpenMRS_Platform_2.4.0/openmrs.war?ts=gAAAAABhKjROvEvFXfmg58yJUSgKhdknP49W_J0BUuIprg6UaZV46lqldC_X5WEPopYXlRA0jfiUbJcS5qw6eMCg-kAoiF94Ow%3D%3D&r=https%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fopenmrs%2Ffiles%2Freleases%2FOpenMRS_Platform_2.4.0%2Fopenmrs.war%2Fdownload
     cd ..
     mkdir platform2.3.2
     mkdir reference-addons
     cd reference-addons
     wget -O reference-apps-2.11.0.zip https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/openmrs/releases/OpenMRS_Reference_Application_2.11.0/referenceapplication-addons-2.11.0.zip?ts=gAAAAABhKjU8AyulzDuNfYkuaOZxINrp2ADRKzMPWu76g46hx8_5E60v3lv4H_7_dXnzXATtW__USmp_YANVMaMdv6niFYbSEw%3D%3D&r=https%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fopenmrs%2Ffiles%2Freleases%2FOpenMRS_Reference_Application_2.11.0%2Freferenceapplication-addons-2.11.0.zip%2Fdownload
     cd ..
    cd platform2.3.2
    wget -O openmrs.war https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/openmrs/releases/OpenMRS_Platform_2.3.2/openmrs.war?ts=gAAAAABhKjWLY3Ie1VhKvEqS0aQIQW-O2685GhCgT4QT2gyqeWr0706l-bC30FfkTvzo-kmtIIkHN2b1R7lYXK1x1zOrganaZA%3D%3D&r=https%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fopenmrs%2Ffiles%2Freleases%2FOpenMRS_Platform_2.3.2%2Fopenmrs.war%2Fdownload

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    sudo mkdir /var/lib/OpenMRS
    sudo chown tomcat:tomcat /var/lib/OpenMRS

Deploy chosen war file and unzip modules/owa to /root/.OpenMRS

http://your.server.com:8080