Installing tomcat7 on CentOS 6.3

Java should be installed before installing tomcat, please read my previous blog to install java

Download apache tomcat from here

#wget http://apache.techartifact.com/mirror/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.39/bin/apache-tomcat-#7.0.39.tar.gz
#tar -xvf apache-tomcat-7.0.39.tar.gz
#mv apache-tomcat-7.0.39 tomcat-7.0.39
#mv tomcat-7.0.39/ /usr/share/
cd /usr/share/tomcat-7.0.39/

Now create tomcat service and set it to start on boot

#vim /etc/init.d/tomcat and paste the below on to that

#!/bin/bash
# description: Tomcat Start Stop Restart
# processname: tomcat
# chkconfig: 234 20 80
export JAVA_HOME
PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
export PATH
CATALINA_HOME=/usr/share/tomcat7

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 

#chkconfig --add tomcat
#chkconfig --level 234 tomcat on
#chkconfig --list tomcat

Now you can start stop tomcat by executing the below command
#service tomcat stop
#service tomcat start

This should work fine now.