Setting up Tomcat

Installing Tomcat consists of

Untar’ing the Tomcat distribution. It is best to set the environment variable TOMCAT_HOME to the location where the Tomcat distribution is expanded. Many of the following steps require a TOMCAT_HOME to be set.
Editing the conf/server.xml file to change the ports to better suit your installation.
1. By default, the connector port for the HTTP connector is set to 8080. Change this to the port used by the mgmt webapp for this appliance, in this example, 17665.
```
<Connector connectionTimeout="20000" port="17665" protocol="HTTP/1.1" redirectPort="8443"/>
```
2. Remove/comment out the sections for the AJP connector.
3. At the end, there should be two ports active in the conf/server.xml file, one for the HTTP connector and the other for the SHUTDOWN command.

Setting the appropriate log4j configuration level by creating/editing the lib/log4j2.xml. Here’s a sample that logs exceptions and errors with one exception - log messages logged to the config namespace are logged at INFO level.

<Configuration>
   <Appenders>
        <Console name="STDOUT" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
            <PatternLayout pattern="%d %-5p [%t] %C{2} (%F:%L) - %m%n"/>
        </Console>
    </Appenders>
    <Loggers>
        <Logger name="org.apache.log4j.xml" level="info"/>
        <Root level="info">
            <AppenderRef ref="STDOUT"/>
        </Root>
    </Loggers>
</Configuration>

To use Apache Commons Daemon, unzip the ${TOMCAT_HOME}/bin/commons-daemon-native.tar.gz and follow the instructions. Once you have built this, copy the jsvc binary to the Tomcat bin folder for convenience. Note, it’s not required that you use Apache Commons Daemon especially, if you are already using system monitoring and management tools like Nagios or Hyperic.
```
$ tar zxf commons-daemon-native.tar.gz
$ cd commons-daemon-1.1.0-native-src
$ cd unix/
$ ./configure
...
$ make
...
$ cp jsvc ../../../bin/
```