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Installing Tomcat on CentOS

By klejnieks on November 17, 2008

Continuing in setting up my CentOS server, the next thing I need is to get Hudson setup. Before I can get Hudson up and running I’ll need to get Tomcat installed. I could of course use Winstone which will get me up and running, but I know I will need Tomcat soon for some other things as well so might as well get it setup now.

The Setup

Install some base packages

# yum install rpm-build gcc-java

Add jpackage repository to your yum repos

# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
# wget https://jpackage.org/jpackage.repo
# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/jpackage.repo

set enabled = 1 on all repo files and save the .repo file. Next update yum.

# yum update

Download and install some SRPMs.

# cd /usr/local/src
# wget ftp://jpackage.hmdc.harvard.edu/mirrors/JPackage/1.7/generic/non-free/SRPMS/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.11-1jpp.nosrc.rpm
# wget ftp://jpackage.hmdc.harvard.edu/mirrors/JPackage/1.6/generic/non-free/SRPMS/jta-1.0.1-0.b.4jpp.nosrc.rpm

Download some required files to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES:

# cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES

Download jta-1_0_1B-classes.zip here after agreeing to the license.
Download jdk-1_5_0_11-linux-i586.bin, again after agreeing to a license.
Build and install the rpms.

# rpmbuild --rebuild /usr/local/src/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.11-1jpp.nosrc.rpm
# rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i586/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0-11-1jpp.i586.rpm
# rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i586/java-1.5.0-sun-devel-1.5.0.11-1jpp.i586.rpm
# rpmbuild --rebuild --without javadoc /usr/local/src/jta-1.0.1-0.b.4jpp.nosrc.rpm
# rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/jta-1.0.1-0.b.4jpp.noarch.rpm

Now install tomcat

# yum install tomcat5 tomcat5-webapps tomcat5-admin-webapps

note: if you get a dependency error at this point, like I did at first, try this solution for updating your jpackage-utils http://blog.sixsigns.com/2008/07/11/java-142-gcj-compati386-update-problem-on-centos/ which basically is to install the http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/testing/i386/RPMS/jpackage-utils-1.7.5-1jpp.1.el5.centos.noarch.rpm package and update yum

At this point you should be able to navigate to your ip on port 8080 and see the default tomcat page

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7 responses to “Installing Tomcat on CentOS”

  1. Foehn
    Foehn May 6, 2009 at 1:27 am |

    Great Contribution.

  2. LessZoa
    LessZoa August 25, 2009 at 1:07 pm |

    I have a “herd” of tomcats with Apache in front running on CentOS5 if anyone is interested. See my blog for details.

  3. LessZoa
    LessZoa August 25, 2009 at 1:08 pm |

    dang.. forgot link.. sorry…
    http://lesszoa.blogspot.com/search/label/tomcat

  4. Rich
    Rich October 9, 2009 at 10:22 am |

    These links don’t work:
    Download jta-1_0_1B-classes.zip here after agreeing to the license.
    Download jdk-1_5_0_11-linux-i586.bin, again after agreeing to a license.

    Searched on those files and found links here
    http://www.tummy.com/Community/Articles/tomcat-centos/tomcat5.html

    Thanks,

    RicH

  5. Kadimi
    Kadimi April 12, 2010 at 8:16 am |

    I suggest you remove https and use http only, last time I tried with https I got an error message: “[...] enable to establish SSL connection”

    ..But thanks for the post, it’s very helpful

  6. Greg Akins
    Greg Akins June 16, 2010 at 10:27 am |

    I got an additional dependency complaint (xml-commons) installing tomcat and resolved it with the information at http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=161024

  7. apis17
    apis17 July 26, 2010 at 2:26 am |

    yum install xorg-x11-utils

    from http://mail.hyperic.org/pipermail/hq-users/2007-October/004334.html

    if you have libXp problem. the command yum install libXp maybe nit fix.

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