Antlinux

• Download: http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi

The basic steps for installing Tomcat are:

1. Download the tarball and unpack
2. Compile the jsvc stub. This is what starts and stops the server. Put the jsvc binary in the $TOMCAT_HOME/bin directory once you have it compiled.
3. Borrow the tomcat.sh script from the "build_apache" directory of Anlinux CVS for use in /etc/init.d
4. Set up Apache and Tomcat configuration files
• server.xml
• tomcat-users.xml
• httpd.conf
• httpd-ajp-proxy.conf
5. Run Tomcat
• /etc/init.d/tomcat [start|stop]

There's a couple of Tomcat startup scripts located in the jsvc tarball, you can use them to start/stop Tomcat via /etc/init.d if desired.

The Tomcat docs talk about creating another user to run Tomcat as. Fair enough. The "Adding New Users/Groups" page has the particulars for adding new users/groups on Debian.

Here's a site that describes how to set up the JK proxy, as well as a blog post on how to set up Apache/Tomcat using AJP.

Building the Apache/Tomcat Native Connector