Tomcat7 – Setting CATALINA_HOME in Debian/Ubuntu

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Where is tomcat7's CATALINA_HOME in Debian/Ubuntu, and more importantly how did you find it?

I'm OK with Debian rearranging default software installations, but we must be able to find out where basic resources have been moved. Is there any easy-to-find README or config file in the tomcat7 installation that has this vital info?

Best Answer

It is under /usr/share/tomcat7/.

One way to find the location is to look into the service startup script /etc/init.d/tomcat7. You will find these lines in it:

NAME=tomcat7
...
CATALINA_HOME=/usr/share/$NAME

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Tomcat7 User – Run Tomcat7 as tomcat7 or Any Other User

The most common way is to install the standard tomcat7 package with apt-get and to start it using:

sudo service tomcat7 start

The default user and group are configured in /etc/default/tomcat7 as you can see in this excerpt:

# Run Tomcat as this user ID. Not setting this or leaving it blank will use the
# default of tomcat7.
TOMCAT7_USER=tomcat7

# Run Tomcat as this group ID. Not setting this or leaving it blank will use
# the default of tomcat7.
TOMCAT7_GROUP=tomcat7

Ubuntu – how to stop tomcat7 in ubuntu

Generally any service in Ubuntu can be managed by

sudo service <service_name> <argument>

Here service_name stands for name of the service, in your case it is tomcat7.

Argument stands for type of the action like start,stop,restart,status, in your case it is stop.

so finally you can stop tomcat7 with this below command.

sudo service tomcat7 stop

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