How To Use External Tomcat On Linux

Download the Apache Tomcat

Transfer the downloaded Tomcat to Linux Server.

You can transfer the Tomcat to Linux Server using Winscp or any other file transfer tool.

Extracting the file on the Linux Server:

Run Command to extract the downloaded file:
tar xzvf apache-tomcat-9.0.117.tar.gz
Give proper rights on the extracted file – using chmod

Configuration of the Tomcat on Linux server:

Create a file name: setenv.sh under tomcat/bin folder.
Add below contents in the file:
CATALINA_PID=”/sap_bobj/tomcat/bin/pid.txt”
export CATALINA_PID
JRE_HOME=”//sap_bobj/enterprise_xi40/linux_x64/sapjvm/”
export JRE_HOME
# set the JAVA_OPTS for tomcat
JAVA_OPTS=”-d64 -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dbobj.enterprise.home=${BOBJEDIR}enterprise_xi40 -Djava.awt.headless=true -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=false -Xmx4096m -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=1024m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Xloggc:${BOBJEDIR}tomcat/logs/tomcat.gc.log -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+UseParallelOldGC”
export JAVA_OPTS
Start the tomcat using command ./startup.sh from tomcat/bin
Access the tomcat home page and test:
http://
Default Http connector port of tomcat is 8080, you can change it from the server.xml under tomcat/conf