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sudo groupadd tomcat
sudo useradd -s /bin/false -g tomcat -d /opt/tomcat tomcat

Download and Install Tomcat 

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Find the latest version

Go to the tomcat downloads page, find the latest Binary Distributions section, then the Core sub-heading, and copy the tar.gz link.

Download Tomcat

On the linux server, goto the tmp directory then use curl to download from the link that you found above. E.g.

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cd /tmp
curl -O http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/rsync.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-9/v9.0.38/bin/apache-tomcat-9.0.38.tar.gz

Install Tomcat

Unpack the tomcat tar.gz file into /opt/tomcat.

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sudo mkdir /opt/tomcat
cd /opt/tomcat
sudo tar xvf /tmp/apache-tomcat-9*tar.gz --strip-components=1

This will have created the tomcat folders (conf, logs, webapps etc.) directly under /opt/tomcat.

Now to set the file ownership and permissions.

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cd /opt/tomcat
sudo chown -R tomcat webapps/ work/ temp/ logs/
sudo chgrp -R tomcat .
sudo chmod -R g+r conf
sudo chmod g+x conf


Create a service wrapper

This stage creates a wrapper which allows tomcat to be managed as a service; this allows tomcat to be stopped and started reliably, and ensures that the running environment (e.g. the starting directory) is well defined.

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