Installing Tomcat 7 on Linux system with Native Library

Question

How do you install native library for Tomcat 7.0 under Linux system such as CentOS?

Answer 1

Installer

wget ftp:\\yourdeployment.server.local/tomcat7.tar.gz  
tar xvzf tomcat7.tar.gz   
cp -f tomcat /usr/share/tomcat7 
rm -f /usr/share/tomcat  
ln -s /usr/share/tomcat7 /usr/share/tomcat    
chmod 777 /usr/share/tomcat7/bin/ *.sh    
useradd -d /usr/share/tomcat -s /sbin/nologin tomcat  
chown -R tomcat /usr/share/tomcat7    
rm -f /etc/init.d/tomcat  
cp -f /usr/share/tomcat7/tomcat /etc/init.d/  
chmod +x /etc/init.d/tomcat    
rm -f /etc/profile.d/env.sh  
cp -f /usr/share/tomcat7/env.sh /etc/profile.d/  
chmod +x /etc/profile.d/env.sh    
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/tomcat    

Native package installation

cd /usr/share/tomcat7/bin  
tar -xvzf tomcat-native.tar.gz  
cd tomcat-native-<replace with current version>-src/jni/native  
./configure --with-apr=/usr && make && sudo make install  
cd /usr/lib  
rm -f libtcnative-1.so  
ln -s /usr/local/apr/lib/libtcnative-1.so libtcnative-1.so  
init 6  

tomcat file:

#!/bin/bash  
 chkconfig: 234 20 80  
 description: Tomcat Server basic start/shutdown script  
 processname: tomcat  

export JAVA_HOME=/jdk7  
export TOMCAT_HOME=/usr/share/tomcat7  
export JEE_JAR=/jdk7  
export JRE_HOME=/jdk7/jre  
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin  
export CLASSPATH=.:$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib:$JAVA_HOME/lib:$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar  

case $1 in  
start)  
  sh /usr/share/tomcat7/bin/startup.sh  
;;
stop)
  sh /usr/share/tomcat7/bin/shutdown.sh
;;  
restart)  
  sh /usr/share/tomcat7/bin/shutdown.sh  
  sh /usr/share/tomcat7/bin/startup.sh  
;;  
esac  
exit 0  

env.sh

export JAVA_HOME=/jdk7  
export JRE_HOME=$JAVA_HOME  
export TOMCAT_HOME=/usr/share/tomcat7  
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin  
export CLASSPATH=.:$JRE_HOME/lib:$JAVA_HOME/lib:$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar  

Answer 2

Just want to point out that the tomcat-native-1.1.20-src changes with each new version. So that should be addressed.

Also backup of files before they are removed would be good idea just in case you need to roll back.