Tomcat 5 on Linux Step-By-Step

I have recently been given the task of installing Tomcat 5 and Java 5 (not in the order of course) onto a Linux machine. Where my Linux skills should be is a big black hole, so I did what any developer would do and went on google and had a look for some documentation to help me do it.

The more I see of Linux the more I think it's not that, especially as there is a decent GUI interface so I can see the folders and navigate my way around. I don't really have a choice where I work and have worked, all the operating systems were already installed so all I have used is Windows. The wierd thing with using Linux is that everything is named slightly differently and you get to complete standstills on things like running a bat file (or sh in Linux)

Before I actually install Java and Tomcat we have been mucking around with OC4J and have installed java 1.4

Anyway I found some decent links to help me install Tomcat and thought I would blog about them because then I will be able to find them easily tomorrow and they might be of interest to other people

This is a comprehensive guide to installing Tomcat 5 on Linux

http://linux-sxs.org/internet_serving/book1.html

and this is instructions on how to install Java

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/install-linux.html

tomcat 4 if you are doing it old school style

http://johnturner.com/howto/apache2-tomcat4127-jk-rh9-howto.html

Another Tomcat 5 link, for Red Hat

http://www.meritonlinesystems.com/docs/apache_tomcat_redhat.html

and good luck