Hello, @oba
Hint is working fine for me.
$ sudo curl -O https://downloads.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.5.58/bin/apache-tomcat-8.5.58.tar.gz
$ ls
$ sudo tar -xvf apache-tomcat-8.5.58.tar.gz
$ sudo mv apache-tomcat-8.5.58 /opt/apache-tomcat-8
Can you please tell me where you are facing issue? May be I can help you to troubleshoot your issue.
Thanks. It works now
Thanks for the corrected steps.It works fine
Hi Team,
Facing the same issue.
Hello, @Priyanka
Because version has been changed.
You can try below one,
$ sudo curl -O https://downloads.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.5.61/bin/apache-tomcat-8.5.61.tar.gz
rest steps is same.
You can cross verify of available version by visiting that site (https://downloads.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.5.61/bin/).
Let me know if you are still facing the issue.
I had tried it with latest version as well.
But it is working now.
Thanks!
Good to hear that, 
hi @Tej-Singh-Rana / @Ayman
I just tried this and it is not working now . Can you please review and suggest
hor@host01 /$
thor@host01 /$
thor@host01 /$ cd /opt
thor@host01 /opt$
thor@host01 /opt$ sudo curl -O https://downloads.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.5.61/bin/apache-tomcat-v8.5.61.tar.gz;
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 196 100 196 0 0 1767 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 1781
thor@host01 /opt$
thor@host01 /opt$ pwd
/opt
thor@host01 /opt$
thor@host01 /opt$ ls
apache-tomcat-v8.5.61.tar.gzthor@host01 /opt$
thor@host01 /opt$ sudo tar -xvf apache-tomcat-v8.5.61.tar.gz
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
thor@host01 /opt$
thor@host01 /opt$ date
Fri Jan 15 14:24:54 UTC 2021
thor@host01 /opt$
thor@host01 /opt$ ls -la
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Jan 15 14:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Jan 15 14:21 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 196 Jan 15 14:24 apache-tomcat-v8.5.61.tar.gz
thor@host01 /opt$
thor@host01 /opt$
This time I have updated / upgraded CentOs which is underlying OS to see whether this helps . But still the output is same .
Can you please review and suggest ?
thor@host01 /$ cd /opt
thor@host01 /opt$
thor@host01 /opt$ sudo curl -O https://downloads.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.5.61/bin/apache-tomcat-v8.5.61.tar.gz
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 196 100 196 0 0 1143 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 1139
thor@host01 /opt$
thor@host01 /opt$ pwd
/opt
thor@host01 /opt$
thor@host01 /opt$ ls -al
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Jan 15 14:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Jan 15 14:41 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 196 Jan 15 14:47 apache-tomcat-v8.5.61.tar.gz
thor@host01 /opt$
thor@host01 /opt$
thor@host01 /opt$ sudo tar -xvf apache-tomcat-v8.5.61.tar.gz
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
thor@host01 /opt$
thor@host01 /opt$ date
Fri Jan 15 14:47:56 UTC 2021
thor@host01 /opt$
thor@host01 /opt$ ls -la
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Jan 15 14:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Jan 15 14:41 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 196 Jan 15 14:47 apache-tomcat-v8.5.61.tar.gz
thor@host01 /opt$
thor@host01 /opt$ history
1 sudo yum install update -y
2 sudo yum install upgrade -y
3 clear
4 sudo dnf install udpate -y
5 clear
6 cat /etc/*release*
7 sudo yum check update
8 sudo yum update
9 sudo yum upgrade
10 clear
11 cd /opt
12 sudo curl -O https://downloads.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.5.61/bin/apache-tomcat-v8.5.61.tar.gz
13 pwd
14 ls -al
15 sudo tar -xvf apache-tomcat-v8.5.61.tar.gz
16 date
17 ls -la
18 history
thor@host01 /opt$
thor@host01 /opt$
thor@host01 /opt$ date
Fri Jan 15 14:48:20 UTC 2021
thor@host01 /opt$
thor@host01 /opt$
hi @Tej-Singh-Rana / @Ayman
When same thing is attempted on v9.0.41 I do not get this error.
Can you please investigate and suggest why there is error in version suggested earlier v8.5.61 but this error is not seen when V9.0.41 is chosen.
Am I missing anything ?
Output is provided below
thor@host01 /opt$ sudo curl -O https://downloads.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-9/v9.0.41/bin/apache-tomcat-9.0.41.tar.gz;
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 10.9M 100 10.9M 0 0 38.4M 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 38.5M
thor@host01 /opt$
thor@host01 /opt$ ls -al
total 11184drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Jan 15 19:25 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Jan 15 19:22 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11442169 Jan 15 19:25 apache-tomcat-9.0.41.tar.gz
thor@host01 /opt$
thor@host01 /opt$ sudo tar -xvf apache-tomcat-9.0.41.tar.gz
apache-tomcat-9.0.41/conf/
apache-tomcat-9.0.41/conf/catalina.policy
apache-tomcat-9.0.41/conf/catalina.properties
apache-tomcat-9.0.41/bin/tool-wrapper.sh
apache-tomcat-9.0.41/bin/version.sh
thor@host01 /opt$
thor@host01 /opt$ ls -al
total 11188
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Jan 15 19:26 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Jan 15 19:22 ..
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Jan 15 19:26 apache-tomcat-9.0.41
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11442169 Jan 15 19:25 apache-tomcat-9.0.41.tar.gz
thor@host01 /opt$
thor@host01 /opt$ ls -al /opt/apache-tomcat-9.0.41
total 156
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Jan 15 19:26 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Jan 15 19:26 ..
drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 Jan 15 19:26 bin
-rw-r----- 1 root root 18982 Dec 3 11:48 BUILDING.txt
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Dec 3 11:48 conf
-rw-r----- 1 root root 5409 Dec 3 11:48 CONTRIBUTING.md
drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 Jan 15 19:26 lib
-rw-r----- 1 root root 57092 Dec 3 11:48 LICENSE
drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 Dec 3 11:43 logs
-rw-r----- 1 root root 2333 Dec 3 11:48 NOTICE
-rw-r----- 1 root root 3257 Dec 3 11:48 README.md
-rw-r----- 1 root root 6898 Dec 3 11:48 RELEASE-NOTES
-rw-r----- 1 root root 16507 Dec 3 11:48 RUNNING.txt
drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 Jan 15 19:26 temp
drwxr-x--- 7 root root 4096 Dec 3 11:45 webapps
drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 Dec 3 11:43 work
thor@host01 /opt$
thor@host01 /opt$ pwd
/opt
thor@host01 /opt$ sudo mv apache-tomcat-9.0.41 /opt/apache-tomcat-9.0.41
mv: cannot move ‘apache-tomcat-9.0.41’ to a subdirectory of itself, ‘/opt/apache-tomcat-9.0.41/apache-tomcat-9.0.41’
thor@host01 /opt$ date
Fri Jan 15 19:28:30 UTC 2021
thor@host01 /opt$
thor@host01 /opt$ pwd
/opt
thor@host01 /opt$
thor@host01 /opt$ history
1 PWD
2 clear
3 pwd
4 clear
5 cd /opt
6 sudo curl -O https://downloads.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-8/v9.0.41/bin/apache-tomcat-9.0.41.tar.gz;
7 ls -al
8 sudo tar -xvf apache-tomcat-9.0.41.tar.gz
9 rm *
10 ls -al
11 rm apache-tomcat-9.0.41.tar.gz
12 sudo rm apache-tomcat-9.0.41.tar.gz
13 ls -al
14 clear
15 sudo curl -O https://downloads.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-9/v9.0.41/bin/apache-tomcat-9.0.41.tar.gz;
16 ls -al
17 sudo tar -xvf apache-tomcat-9.0.41.tar.gz
18 ls -al
19 ls -al /opt/apache-tomcat-9.0.41
20 pwd
21 sudo mv apache-tomcat-9.0.41 /opt/apache-tomcat-9.0.41
22 date
23 pwd
24 history
thor@host01 /opt$
thor@host01 /opt$
Output of extraction is ommited due to limitation imposed on characters . But this is enough for me to pass the checks at the end if I manually create directory with -8 just for sake of passing.
Hello @Ayman facing couple of issues while performing the followup task
Now run tomcat with default settings Open the http://localhost:8080 tab to see the tomcat web page in web browser
There two download options in the tomcat webpage one with bin and another src
https://downloads.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.5.63/
a .Which one should be downloded? both or only the tar file present in bin directory. As per this page both needs to be downloaded
b. If I just download bin there is no bin folder within it neither it has startup.sh file
I can find the startup.sh file if I download the tar file present in the src path from the above link. However while trying to execute sudo ./startup.sh I am getting an error command not found. I am sure I am missing some steps here since I have tried the same steps in my own centos virtual system, and it give me the same error. So I don’t think this is an issue with the lab but with my steps.
Can you please explain what is going wrong here?
Hello, @praddasg
In lecture, provided a URL to download a package:
http://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi
You have to copy a link of tar file from core binary distribution section:
https://downloads.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.5.63/bin/apache-tomcat-8.5.63.tar.gz
Then install the wget package, if it’s not available on a server.
sudo yum install -y wget
If it’s already available then download the package:
wget <apache-tomcat download path>
Extract it tar file,
tar xvf apache-tomcat-8.5.63.tar.gz
Under the apache-tomcat-8.5.63/bin directory, you will see startup.sh file. Execute it.
./startup.sh
then check it from top of the terminal localhost:8080.
From this URL, https://downloads.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.5.63/
You have to download a tar file(which is apache-tomcat-8.5.63.tar.gz) from the bin directory. Extract it from tar then execute it the same as above.
Hello @Tej-Singh-Rana, thanks for explaining this, I was literally checking the website https://downloads.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.5.63/ and did not find any tar package so went in to the bin folder and the package name ends with deployer, which does not have the startup.sh file. I tried the src folder, it does have the startup.sh file but when I tried executing it, it was giving me error bad command
But if I simply use the path which you mentioned, i can see the details.
https://downloads.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.5.63/bin/apache-tomcat-8.5.63.tar.gz
Note: As of now to test the url, i downloaded in my local machine but yet to try out the process in linux machine. But I think this will work.
Moral of the story, the url actually confused me while looking in the browser.
Ahh. Because I am blind and assumed the tar files will be present at the top. Thank you @Tej-Singh-Rana for taking time pointing this out and extremely sorry for this such silly miss.
No, issue. We are here to learn from our mistakes or from others.
Regards,
Thanks, I’ve faced issue in tomcat 8 but 8.5.63 is working fine
still i have a issue please rectify it
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
[root@tomcat opt]# sudo tar -xvf apache-tomcat-8.61.tar.gz
tar: apache-tomcat-8.61.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
[root@tomcat opt]# tar xvf apache-tomcat-8.5.63.tar.gz
tar: apache-tomcat-8.5.63.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
