Tomcat Installation on Linux

Step 1) Create EC2 instance

Step 2) Install java 

# yum install java -y

Step 3)  Download tomcat package

path: /opt/

#wget https://dlcdn.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-9/v9.0.87/bin/apache-tomcat-9.0.87.tar.gz

 Step 4)  Extract tomcat package

#cd /opt

#gunzip apache-tomcat-9.0.87.tar.gz

#tar -xvf apache-tomcat-9.0.87.tar

path: /opt/apache-tomcat-9.0.87

Step 5) Comment out below line in context.xml file

Path: /opt/apache-tomcat-9.0.87/webapps/manager/META-INF

vi context.vml

  <!--  <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve"

  allow="127\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+|::1|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1" /> -->

path: /opt/apache-tomcat-9.0.87/webapps/host-manager/META-INF

 <!--  <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve"

  allow="127\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+|::1|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1" /> -->

Step 6) Add tomcat user.

path: /opt/apache-tomcat-9.0.87/conf

#vi  tomcat-users.xml --> add user configuration.

<role rolename="admin-gui"/>

  <role rolename="admin-script"/>

  <role rolename="manager-gui"/>

  <role rolename="manager-status"/>

  <role rolename="manager-script"/>

  <role rolename="manager-jmx"/>

  <user name="admin" password="admin" roles="admin-gui,admin-script,manager-gui,manager-status,manager-script,manager-jmx"/>

Step 7)Start tomcat

path: /opt/apache-tomcat-9.0.87/bin

#./startup.sh

Step 8)Access tomcat using below URL.

http://<public-ip>:8080