How to install Tomcat in Amazon Web Services EC2

Question

I have created an instance in Amazon web services, and I have connected to the server using putty through ssh.

But I do not know how to install tomcat 8 in amazon ec2. Please help me with this.

Answer 1

You can use yum tool to install the tomcat8 packer from amazon default repository.

The command is: yum install tomcat8-webapps tomcat8-admin-webapps

Answer 2

On Amazon Linux 2 AMI:

1. List extra packages (you will see tomcat8 versions):

   $ amazon-linux-extras list

2. Install extra packages:

   $ sudo amazon-linux-extras install tomcat8.5

3. Start tomcat service:

   $ sudo systemctl start tomcat

4. Create index file:

    $ cd /usr/share/tomcat/webapps
    $ sudo mkdir ROOT
    $ cd ROOT/
    $ sudo vi index.html #add some HTML content

Next you could view your site at localhost:8080