Automated tomcat start up on server reboot

Automated start up on server reboot

Create a new tomcat user using the following command:

adduser tomcat

Create the following file /etc/init.d/tomcat:

#!/bin/bash

#

# tomcat       

#

# chkconfig:

# description: Start up the Tomcat servlet engine.

# Source function library.

. /etc/init.d/functions

RETVAL=$?

CATALINA_HOME="/usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.52"

case "$1" in

 start)

        if [ -f $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh ];

          then

            echo $"Starting Tomcat"

            /bin/su tomcat $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh

        fi

        ;;

 stop)

        if [ -f $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh ];

          then

            echo $"Stopping Tomcat"

            /bin/su tomcat $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh

        fi

        ;;

 *)

        echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop}"

        exit 1

        ;;

esac

exit $RETVAL

Edit the file and change CATALINE_HOME to the location of where tomcat is found.

Grant execution write of the new file using the following command:

chmod 755 /etc/init.d/tomcat

Reassign the owner of the tomcat folder and all subfolders to the tomcat user:

chown tomcat:tomcat –R /usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.52

To start up on server reboot:

ln –s ../init.d/tomcat S71tomcat