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Unix/ Linux installation: these instructions guide you to setting up tomcat to run as a service under the classic init mechanism on unix/ linux (System V) since this will be available on all platforms, but you should consider using Upstart, a more modern init mechanism that will be available on most modern unix/ linux distributions. Installation using upstart is widely covered on the web. Further, at some versions of tomcat, on certain unix/ linux distribution versions, a complete tomcat installation can be performed using a few simple package commands - you can find these from a web search. |
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The System Administrator should have set up a linked directory structure like [c:]/opt/tomcat. The details of this may differ between installations so from this point on, the “root” Tomcat tomcat directory will be referred to as $TOMCAT.
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- Run the Tomcat Monitor.
- Right click on the Apache Tomcat icon in the system tray and select Configure …
- On the ‘General’ tab:
- Set Startup Type to Automatic.
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As the root user, install the “tomcat” script listed in in tomcat service scripts and create a softlink to it from the appropriate run-level directory. The actual run-level directories are specific to the particular unix variant.