How to install tomcat in Linux???
Installing Tomcat from a binary release (tar file) requires manual creation of the Tomcat user account. This is not necessary if you install the Tomcat RPM package on a Linux system that supports RPMs. For security reason I create a user account with no login shell for running tomcat server. #groupadd tomcat #useradd -g tomcat -s /usr/sbin/nologin -m -d /home/tomcat tomcat Now I extracted tar file to /var/lib and change ownership of all files and directories to tomcat: #cd /var/lib #tar -zxvf apache-tomcat-6.0.28.tar.gz #chown -R tomcat:tomcat apache-tomcat-6.0.28 Download latest version tomcat from http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi Starting and Stopping tomcat:- # export CATALINA_HOME=/var/lib/apache-tomcat-6.0.28 # export CATALINA_BASE=/var/lib/apache-tomcat-6.0.28 # su -p -s /bin/bash tomcat $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh Using CATALINA_BASE: /var/lib/apache-tomcat-6.0.28 Using CATALINA_HOME: /var/lib/apache-tomcat-6.0.28 Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /var/lib/apache-tomcat-6.0