Notes on installing new version of Tomcat

At SLAC tomcat is installed in:

/afs/slac.stanford.edu/package/jakarta

To be able to write to this area you need to be in group:

maint-pkg-jakarta

Currently the members of this group are:

tonyj
turri
chee

To install a new version (this may vary by major version):

(The mirror sites may vary, start from http://tomcat.apache.org)

Tomcat 8.0

 apache-tomcat-8.0.20 (from  http://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi#8.0.20)

tar -xvfz apache-tomcat-8.0.20.tar.gz                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

apache-tomcat-8.0.15

Tomcat 7.0

apache-tomcat-7.0.59

Tomcat 6.0

(The mirror sites may vary, start from http://tomcat.apache.org)

http://www.devlib.org/apache/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.30/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.30.tar.gz
tar -xvzf apache-tomcat-6.0.30.tar.gz
rm apache-tomcat-6.0.30.tar.gz

wget http://www.devlib.org/apache/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.30/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.30-deployer.tar.gz
tar -xvzf apache-tomcat-6.0.30-deployer.tar.gz
rm apache-tomcat-6.0.30-deployer.tar.gz

(I am not sure we actually need the deployer).

Tomcat 5.5

wget http://www.trieuvan.com/apache/tomcat/tomcat-5/v5.5.31/bin/apache-tomcat-5.5.31.tar.gz http://www.trieuvan.com/apache/tomcat/tomcat-5/v5.5.31/bin/apache-tomcat-5.5.31.tar.gz
tar -xvzf apache-tomcat-5.5.31.tar.gz
rm  apache-tomcat-5.5.31.tar.gz

(I am not sure where we are picking up the admin or deployer from? Maybe we have copies of them in the ~glast/tomcat? If so they should probably also be updated?)

All

To actually use the new version the setting for JAKARTA must be changed in e.g. ~srs/scripts/java-env.sh

Notes

There is now a tomcat 7.0, but perhaps we don't want to try it yet.
The Fermi servers are all running tomcat 5.5, maybe we could simplify things by changing to tomcat 6?

14Nov2014 - Installed tomcat 7.0.57 and tomcat 8.0.15 in /afs/slac/package/jakarta (Chee)

09Feb2015 - Installed tomcat 7.0.59 in /afs/slac/package/jakarta (Chee)

Installation History

Downloads are put into /afs/slac.stanford.edu/package/jakarta

Changing version of Tomcat Servers

To change the version of a Tomcat server it is necessary to edit the script tomcat/scripts/java-env .sh to change the environment variable JAKARTA.