Tomcat6 configuration

1. Download binary Tomcat6
>cd /home/ying/tools/
>wget http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/software/apache/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.28/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.28.tar.gz

2. unzip
>tar -zxvf apache-tomcat-6.0.28.tar.gz
>cd apache-tomcat-6.0.28

3. create enviromental variables
>export CATALINA_HOME=/home/ying/tools/apache-tomcat-6.0.28

>echo $JAVA_HOME
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.20

4. For possible mutiple instance, we want to use anther directory as a host of web applications

>mkdir /home/ying/web
>cd /home/ying/web
>mkdir webapps
>mkdir temp
>cp -r $CATALINA_HOME/conf .
>export CATALINA_BASE=/home/ying/web
>ls $CATALINA_BASE
conf webapps temp

5. Create a sample "index.html" under $CATALINA_BASE/webapps/das2/
>cat $CATALINA_BASE/webapps/das2/index.html
HELLO,WORLD

6. Start tomcat6
>/home/ying/tools/apache-tomcat-6.0.28/bin/startup.sh

7. Open a web browser and access "http://localhost:8080/das2"
HELLO,WORLD