How to install Tomcat and Deploy war on Ubuntu ?

Install JDK

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-*

Install tomcat

sudo apt-get install tomcat7*

Setup tomcat

vim /etc/tomcat7/tomcat-users.xml

sudo vim /etc/tomcat7/server.xml

Setup JAVA HOME

sudo vim /etc/profile JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64 export JAVA_HOME PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin export PATH

Install tomcat7

sudo apt-get install tomcat7

Start tomcat7

sudo service tomcat7 start

Stop tomcat7

sudo service tomcat7 stop

Restart tomcat7

sudo service tomcat7 restart

Deploy war

Upload war to folder /var/lib/tomcat7/webapp