Tomcat Server Serup

What is Tomcat:

Tomcat receives a request from a client through one of its connectors. For Tomcat we gonna use Centos7 and app01.

Follow the steps to download Tomcat server.

vagrant ssh app01

Verify Hosts entry, if entries missing update the it with IP and hostnames

cat /etc/hosts

Update OS with latest patches

yum update -y

Set Repository

yum install epel-release -y

Install Dependencies

yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk -y

yum install git maven wget -y

Change dir to /tmp

cd /tmp/

Download & Tomcat Package

wget https://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.5.37/bin/apache-tomcat-8.5.37.tar.gz

tar xzvf apache-tomcat-8.5.37.tar.gz

Add tomcat user

useradd --home-dir /usr/local/tomcat8 --shell /sbin/nologin tomcat Copy data to tomcat home dir

cp -r /tmp/apache-tomcat-8.5.37/* /usr/local/tomcat8/ Make tomcat user owner of tomcat home dir

chown -R tomcat.tomcat /usr/local/tomcat8

Setup systemd for tomcat Update file with following content.

vi /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service

Enter below command in the vi editor.

[Unit]

Description=Tomcat

After=network.target

[Service]

User=tomcat

WorkingDirectory=/usr/local/tomcat8

Environment=JRE_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jre

Environment=JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jre

Environment=CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat8 Environment=CATALINE_BASE=/usr/local/tomcat8

ExecStart=/usr/local/tomcat8/bin/catalina.sh run

ExecStop=/usr/local/tomcat8/bin/shutdown.sh

SyslogIdentifier=tomcat-%i

[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target

Start & Enable Tomcat

systemctl daemon-reload

systemctl start tomcat

systemctl enable tomcat

Enabling the firewall and allowing port 8080 to access the tomcat

systemctl start firewalld

systemctl enable firewalld

firewall-cmd --get-active-zones

firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=8080/tcp --permanent

firewall-cmd --reload

We install Tomcat Server, Now its time to Deploy.

CODE BUILD & DEPLOY (app01)

We Goann deploy in Tomcat server itself so don't exit from tomcat. Follow the below steps one by one.

Download Source code

git clone -b local-setup https://github.com/devopshydclub/vprofile-project.git

Update and configuration

cd vprofile-project

vim src/main/resources/application.properties

Update file with backend server details Build code Run below command inside the repository (vprofile-project)

mvn install Deploy artifact

systemctl stop tomcat

rm -rf /usr/local/tomcat8/webapps/ROOT*

cp target/vprofile-v2.war /usr/local/tomcat8/webapps/ROOT.war

systemctl start tomcat

chown tomcat.tomcat usr/local/tomcat8/webapps -R

systemctl restart tomcat

Exit from the root user

Logout from Tomcat web01

Now its time to download Ngnix Server click link to install Ngnix server