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Apache Tomcat is an open source implementation of Java Servlet and JSP technologies used to deploy dynamic web applications and serve pages. It includes components like Catalina for the servlet container and Coyote to act as an HTTP web server. To install on Ubuntu, use apt-get install tomcat8 which will provide files for configuration, runtime, and web applications. Static sites can be deployed by copying files to the webapps folder, while dynamic apps use .war files. Managing Tomcat involves commands to start, restart, and stop the service.

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Apache Tomcat Tutorial

Apache Tomcat is an open source implementation of Java Servlet and JSP technologies used to deploy dynamic web applications and serve pages. It includes components like Catalina for the servlet container and Coyote to act as an HTTP web server. To install on Ubuntu, use apt-get install tomcat8 which will provide files for configuration, runtime, and web applications. Static sites can be deployed by copying files to the webapps folder, while dynamic apps use .war files. Managing Tomcat involves commands to start, restart, and stop the service.

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Apache Tomcat Tutorial

Apache Tomcat Tutorial

Welcome to Apache Tomcat Tutorial. Learn to use Apache Tomcat as a JSP container, HTTP Web Server,
etc., and understand configuration for security and scalability with examples.

Latest version available is Apache Tomcat 8.5.X.

Apache Tomcat Tutorial – Index


Introduction to Apache Tomcat
Installation of Apache Tomcat in Ubuntu
Managing Tomcat
Starting Tomcat
Restarting Tomcat
Stopping Tomcat
Deploying Web Applications with Apache Tomcat

Introduction to Apache Tomcat

The Apache Tomcat software is an open source implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java
Expression Language and Java WebSocket technologies.

Apache Tomcat is usually used as a Servlet Container even though Tomcat has a fully functional HTTP Server
to serve static content. In most of production, Tomcat is used in conjunction with Apache HTTP Server where
Apache HTTP Server attends static content like html, images etc., and forwards the requests for dynamic
content to Tomcat. This is because Apache HTTP Server supports more advanced options than that of Tomcat.

Latest Apache Tomcat version 8.5 adds support for HTTP/2, OpenSSL for JSSE, TLS virtual hosting and
JASPIC 1.1
Components and Features of Apache Tomcat
Apache Tomcat has following components and features to manage web applications.

Catalina
Coyote
Jasper
Cluster
High Availability
Web Application

Jasper 2
Jasper is the JSP Engine for Tomcat. Jasper is responsible for parsing JSP files and compilation of JSP’s
Java code as servlets.

Jasper is capable of background compilation, which means if any changes are made to JSP files, then the
older versions of those JSP files are still retained by the server, until the updated JSP files are recompiled.

Catalina
Catalina is Tomcat’s servlet container. Catalina makes Tomcat a Web Server for dynamic content.

Coyote
Coyote is the component that makes Tomcat capable as a HTTP Web Server. Coyote makes Catalina also act
as a server that serves static content.

Installing Apache Tomcat on Ubuntu

To install Tomcat on Ubuntu, you could use command line interface and run the following command :

$ sudo apt-get install tomcat8

~$ sudo apt-get install tomcat8


[sudo] password for arjun:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
.
.
Setting up tomcat8 (8.0.32-1ubuntu1.4) ...

If you would like to install tomcat7 for some project related reasons, use tomcat7 instead of tomcat8 in the
command.

Following are the useful locations that we may need in furthur steps :

/etc/tomcat{X} for configuration


/usr/share/tomcat{X} for runtime, called CATALINA_HOME
/usr/share/tomcat{X}-root for webapps

You could check if the Tomcat server is running, by opening a browser and hitting the url
http://localhost:8080/.. Something similar to the following would be responded back with.

Start Apache Tomcat


Once you install Tomcat, it is started automatically.

In case if you have stopped it manually, and would like to start Apache Tomcat again, open a terminal and run
the following command.

$ sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat8 start

~$ sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat8 start


[ ok ] Starting tomcat8 (via systemctl): tomcat8.service.

Restart Apache Tomcat


There could be scenarios, like you have updated your web-application, where you may need to restart Apache
Tomcat for the server to pickup the changes.
To restart Apache Tomcat, Open a Terminal and run the following command.

$ sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat8 restart

~$ sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat8 restart


[ ok ] Restarting tomcat8 (via systemctl): tomcat8.service.

Stop Apache Tomcat


To stop Apache Tomcat, Open a Terminal run the following command.

$ sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat8 stop

If you have installed tomat7, use tomcat7 instead of tomcat8 in the above command.

~$ sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat8 stop


[ ok ] Stopping tomcat8 (via systemctl): tomcat8.service.

Deploying Static Web-Applications with Apache Tomcat

In the following sections, we shall learn to deploy static and web applications in tomcat.

Deploying Static Web-Applications with Apache Tomcat


To deploy static web application with Tomcat, all you need to do is copy your project folder to tomcat web-apps
directory.

For Linux :

~$ sudo cp -a StaticWebProject/ /usr/share/tomcat8-root/


~$ cd /usr/share/tomcat8-root/
/usr/share/tomcat8-root$ ls
default_root StaticWebProject
/usr/share/tomcat8-root$ cd StaticWebProject/
/usr/share/tomcat8-root/StaticWebProject$ ls
another_page.html index.html

Now restart Tomcat for the changes to take effect.

~$ sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat8 restart


[ ok ] Restarting tomcat8 (via systemctl): tomcat8.service.

Open a broswer, and hit the url, http://localhost:8080/StaticWebProject.

Deploying Dynamic Web-Applications with Apache Tomcat


.war is the format of the web application that Apache Tomcat Server could deploy. If you are building a web
application using an IDE like Eclipse, you could export the application as a WAR file.

Conclusion
With these series of tutorials, we have learnt how to configure and work with Apache Tomcat.

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