Install Tomcat6.

Install Tomcat6 via aptitude like this:

sudo aptitude install tomcat6

Once that is installed open up the tomcat6 config file:

sudo nano /etc/default/tomcat6

Find the line for JAVA_HOME and change as follows:

#JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/openjdk-6-jdk
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-oracle/jre

And then find the line for JAVA_OPTS and change as follows:

# JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx128m -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC"
JAVA_OPTS="-Xms128m -Xmx256m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -Djava.awt.headless=true -XX:-UseGCOverheadLimit -XX:+UseCompressedOops"

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Sundry Tomcat6 items on an Ubuntu/Debian system.

Get Tomcat6 version:

/usr/share/tomcat6/bin/catalina.sh version

Output should be something like this:

Using CATALINA_BASE:   /usr/share/tomcat6
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /usr/share/tomcat6
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/share/tomcat6/temp
Using JRE_HOME:        /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-oracle/jre
Using CLASSPATH:       /usr/share/tomcat6/bin/bootstrap.jar
Server version: Apache Tomcat/6.0.35
Server built:   Jun 22 2015 01:28:45
Server number:  6.0.35.0
OS Name:        Linux
OS Version:     3.13.0-63-generic
Architecture:   amd64
JVM Version:    1.6.0_45-b06
JVM Vendor:     Sun Microsystems Inc.

Start, stop and control Tomcat6 on an Ubuntu/Debian system:

sudo service tomcat6 start
sudo service tomcat6 stop
sudo service tomcat6 restart
sudo service tomcat6 try-restart
sudo service tomcat6 force-reload
sudo service tomcat6 status

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Fix a myriad of Tomcat6 directory ownership and permissions stuff.

First, set the group ownership of /var/lib/tomcat6/to www-readwrite:

sudo chown tomcat6:www-readwrite -R /var/lib/tomcat6/

And now grant group write privileges to /var/lib/tomcat6/:

sudo chmod g+w -R /var/lib/tomcat6/

Now, note how group write permissions are not set in /etc/tomcat6:

ls -la /etc/tomcat6

Fix that like this:

sudo chmod g+w -R /etc/tomcat6

Then check in the /usr/share/tomcat6/:

ls -la /usr/share/tomcat6

We need to setup the server/classes/ directory like this:

sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/tomcat6/server/classes

Then change ownership of the directory like this:

sudo chown -R tomcat6:www-readwrite -R /usr/share/tomcat6

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Adjust Tomcat6 logrotate.d directory permissions.

Change the Tomcat6 logs directory (/var/log/tomcat6) so the owner is root and the group is tomcat6:

sudo chown root:tomcat6 /var/log/tomcat6

Now change the files in that /var/log/tomcat6directory to have tomcat6 as the owner and root as the group:

sudo chown tomcat6:root /var/log/tomcat6/*

Adjust the permissions to the /var/log/tomcat6directory so group members can execute, read and write and others can read:

sudo chmod 775 /var/log/tomcat6

Adjust the permissions to the files in the /var/log/tomcat6 directory so group members can read and write and others can read:

sudo chmod 664 /var/log/tomcat6/*

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Adjust Tomcat6 the logrotate config file.

The default Tomcat6 logrotate config needs to be tweaked as well. So open up the tomcat6logrotate.d config file:

sudo nano /etc/logrotate.d/tomcat6

It should look something like this:

/var/log/tomcat6/catalina.out {
  copytruncate
  weekly
  rotate 52
  compress
  missingok
  create 640 tomcat6 adm
}

Change that so the delaycompress is added to the options, the new owner is tomcat6, the group is rootand file permissions are 664:

/var/log/tomcat6/catalina.out {
  copytruncate
  weekly
  rotate 52
  compress
  delaycompress
  missingok
  create 664 tomcat6 root
}

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Adjusting Tomcat6 group ownership permissions.

NONE OF THIS WORKS! But placing it here for reference anyway.

This method doesn’t work.

sudo nano /etc/default/tomcat6

#TOMCAT6_GROUP=tomcat6
TOMCAT6_GROUP=www-readwrite

And this other method doesn’t work.

sudo nano /etc/init.d/tomcat6

#TOMCAT6_GROUP=tomcat6
TOMCAT6_GROUP=www-readwrite

Set the tomcat6 user’s default group to the www-readwrite group:

sudo usermod -g www-readwrite tomcat6

Add the tomcat6 user to the www-readwrite group:

sudo adduser tomcat6 www-readwrite

Change permissions on the following directories:

sudo chown tomcat6:www-readwrite -R /etc/tomcat6
sudo chown tomcat6:www-readwrite -R /usr/share/tomcat6
sudo chown tomcat6:www-readwrite -R /var/log/tomcat6