Oracle^® Solaris Cluster Data Service for Apache Tomcat Guide

Example: Installing the Apache Tomcat Software on Shared Storage

These steps illustrate how to install the Apache Tomcat software in the directory /tomcat. As long as only one node is mentioned it needs to be the node where your resource group is online.

1. Log in to the zone.

   phys-schost-1# zlogin solarisfz1

2. Add the tomcat group and user.

   zone# groupadd -g 1000 tomcat
   zone# useradd -g 1000 -d /tomcat -m -s /bin/ksh tomcat

3. Install the Apache Tomcat binaries.

   zone# su - tomcat
   zone# gzcat apache-tomcat-5.5.17.tar.gz|tar xvf -
   zone# gzcat apache-tomcat-5.5.17-compat.tar.gz|tar xvf -

4. Create your environment script /tomcat/env.ksh with the following contents.

   zone# cat env.ksh 
   #!/usr/bin/ksh
   JAVA_HOMME=/usr
   CATALINA_HOME=/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17
   export JAVA_HOME CATALINA_HOME

5. Copy the Apache Tomcat configuration file from the agent directory to its deployment location.

   zone# cp /opt/SUNWsctomcat/bin/pfile /tomcat
   zone# chown tomcat:tomcat /tomcat/pfile

6. Add this cluster's information to the parameter file /tomcat/pfile.

   The following listing shows the relevant file entries and the values to assign to each entry.

   EnvScript=/tomcat/env.ksh
   User=tomcat
   Basepath=/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17
   Host=zone-hostname
   Port=8080
   TestCmd="get /index.jsp"
   ReturnString="CATALINA"
   Startwait=20

   As an alternative, you can use the following set of variables:

   EnvScript=/global/mnt3/tomcat/env.ksh
   User=tomcat
   Basepath=/global/mnt3/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17
   TestUrl="http://ha-host-1:8080/"
   ReturnString="CATALINA"
   Startwait=20

7. Save and close the file.
8. Leave the zone.