How to Install Apache Tomcat 8 on Arch Linux Easy Guide

March 7, 2014 | By the+gnu+linux+evangelist.

Tomcat 8 Arch Linux Installation Guide

The Guide shows you How to Install and Getting-Started with Apache Tomcat 8 Server on Arch GNU/Linux.

And Tomcat 8 for Arch Linux Support Java EE 7, Java Servlet 3.1, JavaServer Pages 2.3, Java Unified Expression Language 3.0 and Java WebSocket 1.0.

Inside the Post you find included instructions on How to Getting-Started with Tomcat 8 Deployment on Arch Linux.

The Apache Tomcat 8 is Java EE 7 Compliant with this New Features:

  • Support for Java Servlet 3.1, JavaServer Pages 2.3, Java Unified Expression Language 3.0 and Java WebSocket 1.0.
  • The default connector implementation is now the Java non-blocking implementation (NIO) for both HTTP and AJP.
  • A new resources implementation that replaces Aliases, VirtualLoader, VirtualDirContext, JAR resources and external repositories with a single, consistent approach for configuring additional web application resources.

Finally, to improve the Visualization of the whole Process the How to install Tomcat 8 on Linux Arch Tutorial includes the Essential Screenshots.

Install Tomcat 8 on Arch Linux - Featured
  1. First, Open a Shell Terminal emulator window
    (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

    Install Tomcat 8 on Arch Linux - Open Terminal
  2. Download Apache Tomcat 8 Server.

    Apache Tomcat 8 tar.gz
  3. Double-Click on Archive and Extract into /tmp.


    Or from Shell:

    tar xvzf apache-tomcat-8*.tar.gz -C /tmp/
  4. Relocate Apache Tomcat 8.

    sudo chown -R root:root /tmp/apache-tomcat*
    sudo mv /tmp/apache-tomcat-8* /opt/
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    Install Oracle JDK for Arch Linux
  6. Commands to Start and Stop the Tomcat Server

    • Start

      /opt/apache-tomcat-8*/bin/startup.sh
    • Stop

      /opt/apache-tomcat-8*/bin/shutdown.sh
  7. Then to Access Tomcat Admin on Browser Go.

    http://localhost:8080

  8. Tomcat 8 Deployment Quick Start:


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