Tomcat 6

Installing Sun-Java6 in Ubuntu 10.04

$ nano /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner

$ dpkg --get-selections | grep sun-java
$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk


Installing Tomcat6

$ sudo apt-get install tomcat6


Configuration

1. Changing JVM used
$ sudo nano /etc/default/tomcat6

JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun


2. Declaring users and roles
$ sudo nano /etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml

<role rolename="admin"/>
<user username="tomcat" password="s3cret" roles="admin"/>


3. Changing default ports
$ sudo nano /etc/tomcat6/server.xml

<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
               connectionTimeout="20000"
               redirectPort="8443" />
...
<Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8443" />


Using Tomcat standard webapps

1. Tomcat documentation (http://yourserver:8080/docs)
$ sudo apt-get install tomcat6-docs

2. Tomcat administration webapps (http://yourserver:8080/manager/html, http://yourserver:8080/host-manager/html)
$ sudo apt-get install tomcat6-admin

/* Access to the manager application is protected by default: you need to define a user with the role "manager" in /etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml before you can access it. */

/* Access to the host-manager application is also protected by default: you need to define a user with the role "admin" in /etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml before you can access it. */

$ sudo chgrp -R tomcat6 /etc/tomcat6
$ sudo chmod -R g+w /etc/tomcat6

3. Tomcat examples webapps (http://yourserver:8080/examples)
$ sudo apt-get install tomcat6-examples

4. Program Huree Academy (http://yourserver:8080/HUREEICT)
$ sudo gedit /etc/tomcat6/server.xml


<Context path="/HUREEICT" docBase="/home/hureeadmin/academy/HUREEICT" />
</Host>


nano /etc/mysql/my.cnf
# bind-address           = 127.0.0.1