Tomcat installation is one of the most straightforward installations I have come across. However, if you don’t know then don’t worry. You will learn how to install Tomcat 7 and get up and running in just 5 minutes. In this article, I will explain how to download, install and ensure it’s up & running.

Download the latest Tomcat7 version 7.0.62 from below link

https://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi

Transfer the downloaded zip file to your server where you wish to install tomcat.

In this example – I have transferred to /opt/

unzip the transferred file apache-tomcat-7.0.62.zip

And then you will have a new folder You may rename apache-tomcat-7.0.62 to tomcat but it’s entirely on you. This concluded tomcat installation is done and now will start to ensure installation is successful.

Go to apache-tomcat-7.0.62/bin folder Execute startup.sh to start the tomcat

If you are getting permission denied while executing sh file then you need to change the permission to sh file as executable.

now, let’s try to start.

as you can see Tomcat is started. By default, tomcat listens on 8080 port so you may wish to access tomcat by http://servername:8080 and you will have a welcome page like below.

That was easy. What’s next? Learn more about Tomcat administration here.

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