JSP Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v5.11, by Herong Yang
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
JSP (JavaServer Pages) Overview
Tomcat Installation on Windows Systems
Syntax of JSP Pages and JSP Documents
JavaBean Objects and "useBean" Action Elements
Managing HTTP Response Header Lines
Non-ASCII Characters Support in JSP Pages
Overview of JSTL (JSP Standard Tag Libraries)
Multiple Tags Working Together
►Using Tomcat on CentOS Systems
Download and Install Tomcat on CentOS
►Start/Stop Tomcat Server on CentOS
My First Servlet Page on CentOS
Connecting to SQL Server from Servlet