Installing Apache Tomcat

1. Download the latest stable release of tomcat from the tomcat website.
2. Extract it to the required root directory. In our case it is /usr/tomcat/
• tar -xzf /apache-tomcat-6.0.20.tar.gz -C /usr/tomcat/
• NOTE: /usr/tomcat directory has to be created.
  
3. Create a symbolic from /usr/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.20 to latest. Commands shown below.
• cd /usr/tomcat
• ln -s apache-tomcat-6.0.20 latest
  
4. Add CATALINA_HOME = /usr/tomcat/latest to /etc/profiles.
5. Execute the following command after the changes to /etc/profiles has been made.
   
• source /etc/profiles