How To Install Tomcat 6 on Ubuntu

Apache Tomcat is a servlet container developed by the Apache Software Foundation. Tomcat implements the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages (JSP) specifications from Sun Microsystems, and provides a "pure Java" HTTP web server environment for Java code to run.

1. Install required packages

# sudo apt-get install tomcat6 tomcat6-admin tomcat6-examples

Tomcat depends on a lot of other packages and the package manager will take care of that.

2. Check the services

Make sure the service is responding by entering the following url in a browser:

http://ipaddress:8080/

Replace ipaddress with the ip address of your server