Installing Tomcat on Ubuntu

Tomcat is used for deploying webapps with JSP and Java.

I tried sudo apt-get install from a terminal which installed very quickly. Yey!

But it seems to put the files all over the place. Which meant installing and configuring was a pain. Doh!

So I removed it and used this really simple and far easier way to manually install it:

1. Download Tomcat 6 from http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi to your Downloads folder.
   
2. Unzip into a folder of your choice. Ubuntu used /usr/share/tomcat6 for the install above, so I'll stick with that.
   sudo mkdir /usr/share/tomcat6
   sudo tar -zxvf /home/Downloads/apache-tomcat-6.0.30.tar.gz /usr/share/tomcat6
   
3. The extract will create a folder /usr/share/tomcat6/apache-tomcat-6.0.30.tar.gz so run gksudo nautilus and then move the files and folders into /usr/share/tomcat6
   
4. Then start or stop tomcat with sudo bash /usr/share/tomcat6/bin/startup.shsudo bash /usr/share/tomcat6/bin/shutdown.sh
   
   
5. Then just go to http://localhost:8080 for instructions