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= NST 2.15.0 (Fedora 15) Tomcat6 Installation Notes =

Tomcat does not install cleanly on a NST 2.15.0 (Fedora 15) system due to packaging issues. This section documents what I had to do to get it working.

* Install the ''tomcat6'' packages:

 yum install tomcat6 tomcat6-admin-webapps tomcat6-webapps tomcat6-docs-webapp

* Edit the ''/etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml'' file and add a account with the ''admin,manager'' roles.

* Start the ''tomcat6'' service.

  systemctl start tomcat6.service

At this point the ''tomcat6'' service should be running and you should be able to connect to it using ''http://127.0.0.1:8080/''.

If you see the ''Apache Tomcat'' welcome page, then you should be good to go (maybe you were lucky and the issue described below has already been fixed for you via a yum update).

If you just see a blank page when connecting to this URL, then you probably have the permissions issue identified at [http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=264340 FedoraForum.org]. Running the following commands (as suggested on the forum page) should fix the permissing and owenership issues:

 chmod g+x /usr/share/tomcat6/logs
 chmod g+x /etc/tomcat6
 chmod g+x /usr/share/tomcat6/webapps/
 chmod g+x /usr/share/tomcat6/temp
 chmod g+x /usr/share/tomcat6/work
 chmod g+x /var/cache/tomcat6
 chown -R tomcat:tomcat /etc/tomcat6/Catalina
 chmod g+x /var/lib/tomcat6/

After running the above commands restart the ''tomcat6'' service:

 systemctl restart tomcat6.service