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):

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.gzhttp://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?

Installation History

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