Ubuntu 14.04 - Install Apache Tomcate – Set CATALINA_HOME

How to Install Apache Tomcat on Ubuntu System and set CATALINA_HOME environment variable.

Note: Verify you have jdk already installed or not ? if NOT then follow This tutorial.

There are two way to install tomcat

1. Using apt-get
2. Manually

Method 1 : Install Apache Tomcat with apt-get using below command

$ apt-get install tomcat7

above command will install the latest one available, for me it is apache-tomcat-7.0.59


Method 2 : Install Apache Tomcate Manually

• First download the required version Binary Distributions/ ZIP file from apache.  
 
• Once done with the download extract the file to /opt/, move to opt folder and execute below commands
   

$ cd /opt

$ sudo tar -xvzf ~/Downloads/apache-tomcat-*.tar.gz

 
• Once extract done, you will see the apache-tomcat folder under /opt folder.

Configure CATALINA_HOME

It is always helpful to set environment variable CATALINA_HOME for tomcate, I personally recommend to set it in .bashrc.

• open bashrc using below command.
 

$ sudo gedit ~/.bashrc

• add below lines at the end of the bashrc file. DONE : Save and close the file. 
 

# environment variable for tomcate 
export CATALINA_HOME=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.59

# environment variable for JAVA
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle

 

• make sure you have set the environment variable properly. 

$ $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh

Tomcat should be started.  

$ $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh

Tomcat should be shutdown.