Setting up a Tomcat server on AWS EC2 instance

This will create a Tomcat server on AWS EC2 instance and don't forget to add Port 8080 in the Security Group open for everyone to connect on the server.

Step 2 is similar installing Java jdk and setting up JAVA_HOME in path variable.


##Download the latest tomcat and extract under /opt directory
cd /opt
wget https://www-us.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-9/v9.0.22/bin/apache-tomcat-9.0.22.tar.gz
tar -xzf apache-tomcat-9.0.22.tar.gz

##Update the permissions to make startup.sh/shutdown.sh executables.
chmod +x /opt/apache-tomcat-9.0.22/bin/startup.sh shutdown.sh


##Create shortcut for starting/shutting down tomcat server
ln -s /opt/apache-tomcat-9.0.22/bin/startup.sh /usr/local/bin/tomcatup
ln -s /opt/apache-tomcat-9.0.22/bin/shutdown.sh /usr/local/bin/tomcatdown


##Add to the /conf/tomcat-users.xml file as we will be needing the deployer user to deploy our war file.

<role rolename="manager-gui"/>
<role rolename="manager-script"/>
<role rolename="manager-jmx"/>
<role rolename="manager-status"/>
<user username="admin" password="admin" roles="manager-gui, manager-script, manager-jmx, manager-status"/>
<user username="deployer" password="deployer" roles="manager-script"/>
<user username="tomcat" password="s3cret" roles="manager-gui"/>


##Search for context.xml files

find / -name context.xml

above command gives 3 context.xml files. comment () Value ClassName field on files which are under webapp directory.

##restart tomcat services through our created shortcut
tomcatdown
tomcatup

You can check if the server is up and running by typing the http://public-IP:8080 in your browser.