

Service tomcat8 start Verify your Tomcat installation You need to start the service manually the first time. This command tells the chkconfig service control command to start the tomcat8 service when the system enters runlevels 3 and 5. Set the tomcat8 service to start on boot.Run the following command to reload the changed service configurations.The script drops privilege to the tomcat user in order to start and stop the tomcat8 service.Ĭhown root:root /etc/systemd/system/rviceĬhmod 700 /etc/systemd/system/rvice

This script needs to be owned by root and executable in order to run as a service. Have a look at the recommended memory allocation settings in this article. This is updating the heap size values in CATALINA_OPTS.

We can now reference Tomcat 8.5 from this "new" location: /usr/share/tomcat8. We simply install the new Tomcat in a new directory and delete and recreate the Tomcat 8.5 symlink to point at this new directory.

By creating a symlink to the "real" tomcat directory, we can update the Tomcat instance without having to change every script that references it. Tar -zxvf apache-tomcat-8.5.34.tar.gz -C /usr/share/ Untar the files you have downloaded into the /usr/share directory.This guide also assumes your file is apache-tomcat-8.5.34. Your system's package manager may be used to install Tomcat 8.5 automatically however, this guide assumes you are doing so manually.
