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Installation of Java 2 SDK and Jakarta Tomcat Server

cd /usr/local/src
chmod +x j2sdk-1_4_2_08-linux-i586-rpm
rpm -i j2sdk-1_4_2_08-linux-i586.rpm

# Add these lines to /etc/profile
echo JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_08 >>/etc/profile
echo export JAVA_HOME >>/etc/profile

unzip jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28.zip
mv jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28 /usr/java
groupadd tomcat
useradd -g tomcat tomcat
cd /usr/java
ln -s jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28 jakarta-tomcat
chown tomcat.tomcat /usr/java/jakarta-tomcat
chown -R tomcat.tomcat /usr/java/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28
cd jakarta-tomcat/bin
chmod +x *.sh
. startup.sh
. shutdown.sh
# Setting up ntsysv configuration for tomcat
cat >/etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat

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 …
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EOF
chmod +x /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat
chkconfig –add tomcat
service tomcat start
service tomcat status
# Modify tomcat group at /etc/group
cd /home/tomcat
chmod g+w /home/tomcat