Tomcat installation and configuration and validation.

Apache Tomcat is an open-source, lightweight, powerful and widely-used web server developed and maintained by Apache Foundation. It is an implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages (JSP), Java Expression Language (EL) and Java WebSocket technologies, and provides a pure Java HTTP server to run Java web-based applications.

# yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel 
# useradd -m -U -d /opt/tomcat -s /bin/false tomcat 
# yum install tomcat  
# yum install tomcat-webapps tomcat-admin-webapps 
# yum install tomcat-docs-webapp tomcat-javadoc 
# systemctl start tomcat 
# systemctl restart tomcat 
# systemctl enable tomcat 
# systemctl status tomcat

# firewall-cmd --permanent  --add-port=8080/tcp 
# firewall-cmd –reload 
# systemctl restart tomcat 
CATALINA HOME: /usr/share/tomcat/webapps 
http://192.168.0.104:8080/sample/