Start/Stop Tomcat Server on CentOS

This section provides a tutorial example on how to start and stop Tomcat server on my local CentOS system.

After installing the Tomcat server on my local CentOS system, I need to learn how to properly start and stop the Tomcat as a Web server.

1. Login as "root" and start Tomcat server:

# tomcat start

2. Verify the "tomcat" background process:

# ps -efl | grep tomcat
0 S root      8105     1 ... /usr/lib/jvm/jre/bin/java -classpath \
  :/usr/share/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/share/tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar\
  :/usr/share/java/commons-daemon.jar -Dcatalina.base=/usr/share/tomcat \
  -Dcatalina.home=/usr/share/tomcat -Djava.endorsed.dirs= \
  -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/cache/tomcat/temp \
  -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/usr/share/tomcat/conf/logging.properties \
  -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager \
  org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start

3. Check server log messages:

# tail /usr/share/tomcat/logs/catalina.out
...
... 3:29:00 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init
INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"]
... 3:29:00 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 447 ms
... 3:29:00 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService startInternal
INFO: Starting service Catalina
... 3:29:00 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine startInternal
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.96
... 3:29:00 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
... 3:30:04 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"]
... 3:30:04 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"]
... 3:30:04 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 63652 ms

3. Stop Tomcat server:

# tomcat stop

As you can see from the log messages, my Tomcat server started correctly and was serving the HTTP protocol on port 8080 by default.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 JSP (JavaServer Pages) Overview

 Tomcat Installation on Windows Systems

 JSP Scripting Elements

 Java Servlet Introduction

 JSP Implicit Objects

 Syntax of JSP Pages and JSP Documents

 JSP Application Session

 Managing Cookies in JSP Pages

 JavaBean Objects and "useBean" Action Elements

 Managing HTTP Response Header Lines

 Non-ASCII Characters Support in JSP Pages

 Performance of JSP Pages

 EL (Expression Language)

 Overview of JSTL (JSP Standard Tag Libraries)

 JSTL Core Library

 JSP Custom Tags

 JSP Java Tag Interface

 Custom Tag Attributes

 Multiple Tags Working Together

 File Upload Test Application

Using Tomcat on CentOS Systems

 Download and Install Tomcat on CentOS

Start/Stop Tomcat Server on CentOS

 My First HTML Page on CentOS

 My First JSP Page on CentOS

 My First Servlet Page on CentOS

 Using Tomcat on macOS Systems

 Connecting to SQL Server from Servlet

 Developing Web Applications with Servlet

 Archived Tutorials

 References

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