How-to Install Apache Tomcat 8 on Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid 32-64bit GNU/Linux Easy Visual-Guide
April 21st, 2015 by thelinuxevangelistApache Tomcat 8 Quick-Start on Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Linux
The Linux Tutorial Shows You Step-by-Step How-to Install and Getting-Started with Apache Tomcat 8 Java Web Server on Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet i386/amd64 GNU+Linux Desktop/Server.
Tomcat 8 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 Ubuntu 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 Ubuntu Tutorial includes the Essential Screenshots.

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Open Terminal Window
(Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)Ctrl+Alt+T
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Download Apache Tomcat 8 Server
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Double-Click on Archive and Extract into /tmp
Or from Shell:tar xvzf apache-tomcat-8*.tar.gz -C /tmp/
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Relocate Apache Tomcat 8
sudo chown -R root:root /tmp/apache-tomcat*
sudo mv /tmp/apache-tomcat-8* /opt/
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How-to Install Recommended Oracle-Sun Java JDK on Ubuntu:
- Commands to Start and Stop the Tomcat Server
- Start
/opt/apache-tomcat-8*/bin/startup.sh
- Stop
/opt/apache-tomcat-8*/bin/shutdown.sh
- Start
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Then to Access Tomcat Admin on Browser Go
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Tomcat 8 Deployment Quick Start:
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