AWS EC2 和 Tomcat startup.sh

Question

I installed Tomcat8 on my EC2 instance used following command:

sudo yum install tomcat8

I want to update startup.sh file but I can't find it. /bin folder looks like showed on image:

How can I update startup.sh or reinstall tomcat with startup.sh and shutdown.sh files in bin folder? I don't have apt-get only yum

Answer 1

If you want to review the list of the files installed from the tomcat8 package, you can run

$ repoquery --list 'tomcat8'

You'll see that there's no startup.sh file, there are many blog and doc posts that will go through the installation, if you want better control on your installed tomcat and want to use the startup/shutdown script, it will be better to run a manual installation.

Manual installation

It's detailed here for example

Create a user called "tomcat" to own the Tomcat installation.

# useradd tomcat

Install the JDK from the tarball under the tomcat user.

# su - tomcat
$ tar xzf /tmp/jdk-8u77-linux-x64.gz

Install Tomcat from the tarball under the home directory of the "tomcat" user.

$ tar xzf /tmp/apache-tomcat-8.0.32.tar.gz

Set the following environment variables and append them to the /home/tomcat/.bash_profile so they are set for subsequent logins.

export JAVA_HOME=/home/tomcat/jdk1.8.0_77
export CATALINA_HOME=/home/tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.32
export CATALINA_BASE=$CATALINA_HOME

Start and stop Tomcat using the following scripts.

$ $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
$ $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh

The Tomcat logs are written to the $CATALINA_HOME/logs/ directory by default.

Answer 2

Try at /usr/libexec/tomcat/server on AWS Linux 2