Install Tomcat on EC2

Опубликовано: 17 Май 2026
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TOMCAT Installation on EC2 instance.

Stpes:

Launch EC2 instance with port access 80 and 8080

1. sudo yum update -y
1. Install java - 1.8.0 - ( sudo yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel -y)
2. Install tomcat 8 - official tomcat page : https://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi - core
3. sudo wget - paste the tomcat 8 url.
4. tar -xvf version.tar.gz (apache-tomcat-8.5.92.tar.gz)
5. sudo mv apache**** /opt/tomcat
6. change owner : sudo chown -R ec2-user:ec2-user /opt/tomcat

7 sudo vi ~/.bashc
add the below command

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk

load the modified file to apply the env variable change

source ~/.bashrc

8. start tomcat : /opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh

verify : url:8080

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Manual start or stop tomcat

cd /opt/tomcat/bin

./start or ./shutdown....

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Automate this by using tomcat.service.

first verify

sudo systemctl status tomcat it will give you the error
[ec2-user@ip-10-0-1-43 bin]$ sudo systemctl status tomcat
Unit tomcat.service could not be found.

Steps

sudo vi /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service

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[Unit]
Description=Apache Tomcat Web Application Container
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
Type=forking

Environment=JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk
Environment=CATALINA_PID=/opt/tomcat/temp/tomcat.pid
Environment=CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat
Environment=CATALINA_BASE=/opt/tomcat
ExecStart=/opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh
ExecStop=/opt/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh

User=ec2-user
Group=ec2-user
UMask=0007
RestartSec=10
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

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sudo systemctl daemon-reload

sudo systemctl start tomcat
sudo systemctl enable tomcat

sudo systemctl status tomcat

status will give you error

Active: activating (auto-restart) ----

you need to verfiy if there is any already running process for tocmat : PID

ps - ef | grep tomcat - if running then kill

sudo kill -9 4855

also check if 8080 is listeing on tomcat

sudo netstat -tuln | grep 8080

finally verify

sudo systemctl start tomcat

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