Tomcat7 Installation on firuta

1) Download Tomcat 7.

 cd /tmp
 wget http://www.fightrice.com/mirrors/apache/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.25/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.25.tar.gz

2) Move and extract to the location you wish to install to.

 tar -zxvf apache-tomcat-7.0.25.tar.gz
 sudo su
 mv apache-tomcat-7.0.25/ /usr/share/tomcat7

3) If you haven't already, create tomcat group and add tomcat user. The tomcat user should have /usr/share/tomcat as its home dir.

 groupadd tomcat
 useradd -g tomcat -d /usr/share/tomcat tomcat
 usermod -G www-data tomcat

4) Now change ownership of the directories and create a symlink:

 chown -R tomcat:tomcat /usr/share/tomcat7
 ln -s /usr/share/tomcat7 /usr/share/tomcat

5) Now we create the init script (note that java home on firuta is at /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.24).

 cd /etc/init.d
 vi tomcat7

Paste the following contents into the file

 ### BEGIN INIT INFO
 # Provides:          tomcat7
 # Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog
 # Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog
 # Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
 # Default-Stop:      0 1 6
 # Short-Description: Start daemon at boot time
 # Description:       Enable service provided by daemon.
 ### END INIT INFO
 
 #!/bin/bash  
 # description: Tomcat Start Stop Restart  
 # processname: tomcat  
 # chkconfig: 234 20 80  
 JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.24  
 export JAVA_HOME  
 PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH  
 export PATH  
 CATALINA_HOME=/usr/share/tomcat
 
 
 case $1 in  
 start)  
 sh $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh  
 ;;   
 stop)     
 sh $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh  
 ;;   
 restart)  
 sh $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh  
 sh $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh  
 ;;   
 esac      
 exit 0

6) We want this script to start at system boot so we use the following to set executable permission and runlevel:

 chmod 755 tomcat7
 update-rc.d tomcat7 defaults

7) If migrating from tomcat6, copy war files and/or directories from the old webapps location to the new one. (On firuta, create a tomcat7webapps symlink in /var/www/ to the webapps dir in tomcat7)

 cd /var/www/tomcat6webapps
 cp *.war /usr/share/tomcat7/webapps/
 ln -s /usr/share/tomcat7/webapps/ ../tomcat7webapps

8) Start tomcat7!

 /etc/init.d/tomcat7 start

9) See that http://firuta.huh.harvard.edu:8080 works. Now move the index.html from tomcat6 to tomcat7:

 cd /var/www/tomcat7webapps
 cp /var/www/tomcat6webapps/ROOT/index.html ROOT/index.html
 cp ../tomcat7webapps/ROOT/index.html ROOT/index.html

10) Try out the filteredpush web client and see that it works.