Restart Tomcat, the war file will be extracted and deployed automatically. Extras…Ħ.1 To deploy a WAR file, just copy the WAR file in the /opt/tomcat8/webapps/ folder. Using CLASSPATH: /opt/tomcat8/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/tomcat8/bin/tomcat-juli.jar

If you are looking for more advanced features, try visiting this Tomcat init scriptĤ.0K -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 859 Dec 27 22:07 /etc/init.d/tomcat8 This simple Tomcat init script is running in one of my servers, and I believe it is enough to control the Tomcat.

$ sudo chown -R tomcat:tomcat /opt/tomcat8Ĥ.0K drwxr-xr-x 9 tomcat tomcat 4.0K Dec 27 09:16 tomcat8 $ sudo useradd -s /sbin/nologin -d /opt/tomcat/temp tomcatģ.2 Change permissions of the /opt/tomcat8 folder, so that the new “tomcat” user can run the Tomcat.

In this example, we will create a non-login user “tomcat”, and set his home to /opt/tomcat/temp (anywhere you want). For good practice, we should create a new user to run the Tomcat. Ĩ.8M -rw-r-r- 1 root root 8.8M Dec 1 17:56 apache-tomcat-8.0.30.tar.gzĤ.0K drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Dec 27 09:06 jdkĤ.0K drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4.0K Dec 27 09:16 tomcat8ģ.1 Review the extracted tomcat8 folder, which is belonging to “root” user.

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