How to install Tomcat in Amazon Web Services EC2

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I have created an instance in Amazon web services, and I have connected to the server using putty through ssh.

But I do not know how to install tomcat 8 in amazon ec2. Please help me with this.

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8 Answers

36
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You can use yum tool to install the tomcat8 packer from amazon default repository.

The command is: yum install tomcat8-webapps tomcat8-admin-webapps

10
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On Amazon Linux 2 AMI:

  1. List extra packages (you will see tomcat8 versions):

    $ amazon-linux-extras list

  2. Install extra packages:

    $ sudo amazon-linux-extras install tomcat8.5

  3. Start tomcat service:

    $ sudo systemctl start tomcat

  4. Create index file:

    $ cd /usr/share/tomcat/webapps
    $ sudo mkdir ROOT
    $ cd ROOT/
    $ sudo vi index.html #add some HTML content

Next you could view your site at localhost:8080

9
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For Amazon AMI 2, Tomcat is available in Amazon Linux Extra topic "tomcat8.5"

To use, run

# sudo amazon-linux-extras install tomcat8.5

Learn more at https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-2/faqs/#Amazon_Linux_Extras

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If you also want to know the help documentation, the command is: sudo yum install tomcat8-webapps tomcat8-docs-webapp tomcat8-admin-webapps

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The below Link works well for EC2 / Linux or Mac

sudo yum install tomcat8-webapps tomcat8-docs-webapp tomcat8-admin-webapps

This will install:

  1. WebApps Folder
  2. Tomcat documentation (Gives local documentation for qucik reference)
  3. Admin App : through which you can install / export / start /stop / reload an application (without having to login)

Note: When a Manager App is installed - be sure to change the default roles and permissions etc and Password too. Otherwise you are very vulnerable. Its best to disable the admin module for better security.

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STEPS:

  1. first check whether java has to be installed on your instance or not.
  2. if not, install java: yum install java -y
  3. go to the tomcat-Apache.org site, and copy the link to the tar.gz file
  4. open the terminal and execute this command: sudo wget <tar.gz path>
  5. unzip the tar file: tar -vxzf Apache-tomcat-xxxx.tar.gz
  6. setup users and port number (by default 8080)
  7. then shutdown and start the tomcat server: ./shutdown.sh and ./startup.sh
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For this:

  1. you need to do copy the tomcat tar file path wget <tar file path>
  2. unzip the tar file tar -zvxf apache-tomcat-xxxx.tar.zf
  3. you need to set the users and port number and then stop and restart the tomcat server
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below mentioned follow the step but http://locathost:8080/manager/html is Not open on amazon Linux error is showing in the as below menitoned

(HTTP Status 404 – Not Found Type Status Report

Message The requested resource [/manager/html] is not available

Description The origin server did not find a current representation for the target resource or is not willing to disclose that one exists.

Apache Tomcat/9.0.41)

amazon-linux-extras

amazon-linux-extras install tomcat9

yum update

systemctl start tomcat

systemctl status tomcat

netstat -tunple

cd /usr/share/tomcat/webapps

mkdir ROOT

cd ROOT/

vi index.html