tomcat configuration

This tutorial shows how to perform a Tomcat 7 installation using the yum installation utility. The pre-requisite for installing Tomcat is that you have a JDK on your machine, if you haven't got one, you can install it by executing as root user: [root@localhost ~]#  yum install java Next you can start installing Tomcat. There are at least two ways for installing it: Installation option 1: Move to http://tomcat.apache.org/ and download the latest stable release of Tomcat. Once done, unzip it to a folder where you have writing permissions: [tomcat@localhost ~] $ unzip apache-tomcat-7.0.53.zip Once installed, you can start Tomcat by executing from the TOMCAT_HOME/bin folder: [tomcat@localhost ~] $ startup.sh Installation option 2: You can use the yum utility for installing Tomcat. At the time of writing, just Tomcat 6 is available on the yum repository. You can install it by running: [root@localhost ~]# yum install tomcat6 tomcat6-webapps tomcat6-admin-webap...