How to Install Tomcat 7 on Ubuntu 12

Install Tomcat 7 on Ubuntu             

Step: 1

Install java check this post 

                         Step: 2
Download Tomcat 7 tar.gz binary distribution from Here.
                          Step: 3
Unpack it using following command.
tar -xvzf apache-tomcat-7.0.35.tar.gz
                           Step :4
Move it to a more appropriate location using following command.
sudo mv apache-tomcat-7.0.35/ /usr/local/tomcat7
                           Step :5
Open up /usr/local/tomcat7/bin/catalina.sh file using following command
vim /usr/local/tomcat7/bin/catalina.sh
Add following two lines in there after the first line.
JAVA_HOME="/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_11" 

JRE_HOME="/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_11/jre"

                           Step :6

Open /usr/local/tomcat7/conf/tomcat-users.xml and Then add a manager-gui & admin-gui role along with user details as below.

#vi /usr/local/tomcat7/conf/tomcat-users.xml

remove the </tomcat-users> tag and insert below line

<!-- user admin can access manager and admin section both -->

<role rolename="admin-gui" />

<user username="admin" password="redhat" roles="manager-gui,admin-gui" />

</tomcat-users>
:wq!

                            Step :7
Start the Tomcat server using following command.

sudo/usr/share/tomcat7/bin/catalina.sh run

                              Step :8
Verify Tomcat installation using the following URL

http://127.0.0.1:8080

Or

http://localhost:8080

To login as the manager, use the following URL, provide the relevant username and password

http://localhost:8080/manager/html