Multiple Instances of Apache Tomcat 6 on Debain5 Lenny

In my previous post on June 25th 2009, I wrote about the installation and configuration of apache tomcat 6 on debian lenny. For single instance please see the post given below;

http://www.itoperationz.com/2009/06/how-to-install-and-configure-apache-tomcat-6-on-debian-5/

Here in this post, I am going to share the installation and configuration of multiple instances of Apache Tomcat 6 on Debian 5.0 Lenny. If you have followed the instructions given in the above post, Installation and configuration of Apache Tomcat’s multiple instances is just a piece of cake.

Please follow the instructions given below;

1. Download the latest Apache Tomcat from the under given location;

2. http://apache.siamwebhosting.com/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.20/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.20.tar.gz

3. Untar the source at any location you like; (but remember you have to put those addresses in a file to make a service for apache tomcat)

4. I will use the location given below;

5. /opt/tomcat1 (For the second instance of apache tomcat

6. Remember the first instance path /opt/tomcat

7. Changes in server.xml file

8. /opt/tomcat1/conf/server.xml

9. Please change the default ports to some other because the first instance of Apache Tomcat 6 is running on the default ports

10. Changes are given as under;

11.

<Connector port=”8081″ protocol=”HTTP/1.1″ Change port from 8080 to 8081
               connectionTimeout=”20000″
               redirectPort=”8444″ />   Change port from 8443 to 8444
<Connector executor=”tomcatThreadPool”
               port=”8081″ protocol=”HTTP/1.1″ Change Port from 8080 to 8081
               connectionTimeout=”20000″
               redirectPort=”8444″ /> Change port from 8443 to 8444

<Connector port=”8010″ protocol=”AJP/1.3″ redirectPort=”8444″ /> Change ports from 8009 to 8010 and 8443 to 8444

12. Changes in user.xml file

13. /opt/tomcat1/conf/tomcat-users.xml

14. <tomcat-users>
<role rolename=”manager”/>
<role rolename=”admin”/>
<user username=”manager” password=”test1″ roles=”admin,manager”/>
</tomcat-users>

16. Change the user name, password and roles according to your needs;

17. Create a new file with the name of /etc/init.d/tomcat1

18.

#!/bin/sh
# Tomcat Init-Script
case $1 in
start)
sh /opt/tomcat1/bin/startup.sh
;;
stop)
sh /opt/tomcat1/bin/shutdown.sh
;;
restart)
sh /opt/tomcat1/bin/shutdown.sh
sh /opt/tomcat1/bin/startup.sh
;;
esac
exit 0

19. Change the user rights to 0755 by using chmod 0755 /etc/init.d/tomcat1

20. Now add the newly created file in debian startup by using rcconf

If everything goes according to the above given instructions your multiple instances of Apache tomcat 6 on Debian 5 Lenny are ready to use;

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