Where is tomcat configuration in Cpanel?

Question

I have tomcat 7 installed on a linux VPS under cPanel using easyapache 3.

It appears to be working - I can upload a war file and get my service to execute.

However, I need to make some configuration changes such as defining java.library.path. There was an excellent description of that at [How to add a native library in Tomcat?. It says to create a setenv.sh file in the configuration folder, which would also contains catalina.sh.

However, I cannot find any folder with catalina.sh on the cPanel server. I have done a find on the entire file system, and it is just not there. The only tomcat configuration files I can find are in a folder /usr/local/easy/etc/easy-tomcat7

drwxr-xr-x 3 root   nobody   4096 Sep  9 03:54 ./
drwxrwxr-x 3 root   wheel    4096 Jul 27 13:42 ../
drwxrwxr-x 4 root   nobody   4096 Sep  9 03:54 Catalina/
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tomcat nobody  11893 Jan 27  2015 catalina.policy
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tomcat nobody   5946 Jan 27  2015 catalina.properties
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tomcat nobody   1394 Jan 27  2015 context.xml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root   nobody    144 Jan 27  2015 easy-tomcat7-chkserv
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root     5018 Sep  4 23:00 httpd-jk.conf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tomcat nobody    547 Jan 27  2015 log4j.properties
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tomcat nobody   3288 Jan 27  2015 logging.properties
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tomcat nobody   6868 Sep  4 23:04 server.xml
-rw------- 1 tomcat nobody   2082 Sep  3 21:59 tomcat-users.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root     1357 Sep  4 23:00 uriworkermap.properties
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tomcat nobody 162905 Jan 27  2015 web.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root     6549 Sep  4 23:00 workers.properties
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root     1311 Sep  4 23:00 workers.properties.minimal

There are various configuration settings in server.xml, web.xml, catalina.policy, and catalina.properties but nothing matches up with what I see in catalina.sh(or bat) in my local development environment (Windows Tomcat 7).

Is there something special about how cPanel does the install? And where might I put a setenv.bat file? Or does it need to be done some other way?

I do have root access, and don't seem to have any trouble finding anything else on the server.

Thanks for any explanation of what might be going on here.

Fred Andrews Fred Andrews · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-21T20:00:33

After way too many hours of searching I finally found the answer at https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/cpanel-tomcat-jsp-and-servlets-guide.282922/

Java startup values

If you wish to change startup values for Heap size and others (you can see the settings that are configurable if you issue “java -X” without the quotes), then a file named /var/cpanel/tomcat.options could be created.

Here’s an example of entries that could be placed into the file:

-Xmx200M
-Xms100M

And it works!

Where is tomcat configuration in Cpanel?

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