Technical Note - Personal Tomcat Server

Summary

This describes how to setup a Tomcat Server on our systems.

NOTE: This is mainly intended for students doing team projects that have a shared team directory set up for them. It will work from a home directory but be aware of log files and such filling up your allowed disk quota.

Details

NOTE: This refers to the example configuration here
/vol/projects/example/tomcat/tomcat

For this to make any sense you need to look at the script tomcat.sh and the server directory tree

The easiest thing to do is copy the /vol/projects/example/tomcat/tomcat directory into your teams or home area and then modify any files as needed.
E.g rsync -av /vol/projects/example/tomcat/tomcat /vol/projects/mycourse/myteam

Ok so let's assume you haved copied the example tomcat directory into /vol/projects/mycourse/myteam
It should look like below (Not all directories have been expanded to save space )

• Tomcat Directory:
  

tomcat.sh is the startup script. If you copied the example it should just work otherwise you will have to modify it

Run ./tomcat.sh to find out what parameters the script uses but essentially it uses the normal start or stop parameters. After starting it try http://localhost:8181/sample/ in a web browser to test it out. Obviously if you are not on the same computer as what you started it on localhost should be changed to the correct computer name.

Modifying tomcat.sh

If you need to modify tomcat.sh read the comments as you may also have to change tomcat configuration files also.

Important variables are
CATALINA_BASE variable must point to the server directory. Eg. as in our example
/vol/projects/mycourse/myteam/tomcat/server

PORT Changing this also requires changing the tomcat server.xml config file.

Good Luck

That's it, the rest is up to you. It's always worth getting familiar with tomcats online documents. As if you ask us any tomcat specific questions that's where we will be pointing you, we are not tomcat experts.