Download and Install Tomcat on CentOS

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∟Download and Install Tomcat on CentOS

This section provides a tutorial example on how to install Tomcat server on a local CentOS system. It requires OpenJDK.

If you want to learn JSP (JavaServer Page) technology, you should download and install Apache Tomcat on your local machine, so that you can use it test your JSP pages. Here is what I did to download and install Apache Tomcat on my CentOS local computer.

1. Login as "root" to avoid permission problems.

2. Verify that OpenJDK 8 JRE and JDK packages are installed:

# java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_232"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_232-b09)
OpenJDK Server VM (build 25.232-b09, mixed mode)

# javac -version
javac 1.8.0_232

3. Install Tomcat with "yum" package tool. It will download the latest version of the correct binary package automatically.

# yum install tomcat:

...
Installed:
  tomcat.noarch 0:7.0.96-1.el6

Dependency Installed:
  ecj.i686 1:4.5.2-3.el6
  jakarta-commons-daemon.i686 1:1.0.1-8.9.el6
  java-1.5.0-gcj.i686 0:1.5.0.0-29.1.el6
  java_cup.i686 1:0.10k-5.el6
  libgcj.i686 0:4.4.7-23.el6
  sinjdoc.i686 0:0.5-9.1.el6
  tomcat-el-2.2-api.noarch 0:7.0.96-1.el6
  tomcat-jsp-2.2-api.noarch 0:7.0.96-1.el6
  tomcat-lib.noarch 0:7.0.96-1.el6
  tomcat-servlet-3.0-api.noarch 0:7.0.96-1.el6

Complete!

4. Verify Tomcat installation:

# which tomcat
/usr/sbin/tomcat

# tomcat version
Server version: Apache Tomcat/7.0.96
Server built:   Sep 26 2019 18:42:39 UTC
Server number:  7.0.96.0
OS Name:        Linux
OS Version:     2.6.32-696.20.1.el6.i686
Architecture:   i386
JVM Version:    1.8.0_232-b09
JVM Vendor:     Oracle Corporation