How to make a tomcat as a service in CENTOS/RHCE

Introduction

This document will teach you how to setup Tomcat to run as a service (startup when booted) on Linux. 

Step 1:

# touch /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat

# groupadd tomcat

# useradd -g tomcat tomcat

# chown -R tomcat.tomcat /usr/local/tomcat6

# chmod a+x /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat

# vim /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat

Step 2:

Copy the below content in the above mentioned file and edit the path what you need correct

#!/bin/sh

#

#

#

# chkconfig: 345 80 20

# description: Tomcat is the Apache Servlet Engine

# processname: tomcat

# pidfile: /var/run/tomcat.pid

#

# Tomcat name :)

TOMCAT_PROG=tomcat

# if TOMCAT_USER is not set, use tomcat like Apache HTTP server

if [ -z "$TOMCAT_USER" ]; then

 TOMCAT_USER="tomcat"

fi

  

RETVAL=0

  

# start and stop functions

start() {

    echo -n "Starting tomcat: "

  

    chown -R $TOMCAT_USER:$TOMCAT_USER /usr/local/

 jakarta -tomcat/*   

    chown -R $TOMCAT_USER:$TOMCAT_USER /home/tomcat/*

    su -l $TOMCAT_USER -c '/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat/bin/startup.sh'

    RETVAL=$?

    echo

    [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/tomcat

    return $RETVAL

}

  

stop() {

    echo -n "Stopping tomcat: "

    su -l $TOMCAT_USER -c '/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh'

    RETVAL=$?

    Echo

    [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/tomcat /var/run/tomcat.pid   

    rm -rf /usr/local/

 jakarta -tomcat/work/*

}

  

# See how we were called.

case "$1" in

  start)

        start

        ;;

  stop)

        stop

        ;;

  restart)

        stop

        sleep 2

        start

        ;;

  *)

        echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"

        exit 1

esac

  

exit $RETVAL

Step 3: 

Finally type the below command 

# chkconfig --add tomcat

# chkconfig tomcat on

# service tomcat restart