Alfresco Community 23.x Install Tomcat

Alfresco Supported platforms

Here is a list of the individual components that have been through the complete Alfresco Quality Assurance and Certification activities for Alfresco Content Services 23.x.

Downloaded the distribution packages

Navigate to the Apache Tomcat official download page, and grab the latest version of the binary distribution in tar.gz format.

v10.1.20:

$ wget https://downloads.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-10/v10.1.20/bin/apache-tomcat-10.1.20.tar.gz

Extract the package

# extract
$ sudo tar -xvf /home/ubuntu/apache-tomcat-10.1.20-bin.tar.gz

# copy
$ sudo cp -R /home/ubuntu/apache-tomcat-10.1.20/* /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/tomcat/

Update directory permissions

    $ sudo chgrp -R Alfresco /usr/local/alfresco-community23x
         
    $ sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/tomcat/bin
         
    $ sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/tomcat/conf
      
    $ sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/tomcat/shared

    $ sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/tomcat/lib

    $ sudo chmod -R 775 /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/tomcat/temp
         
    $ sudo chmod -R 775 /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/tomcat/logs

    $ sudo chmod -R 775 /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/tomcat/work
         
    $ sudo chmod -R 775 /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/tomcat/webapps

Create a system service

Create a tomcat.service

/etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service:

 # Systemd unit file for tomcat
 [Unit]
 Description=Apache Tomcat Web Application Container
 After=syslog.target network.target

 [Service]
 Type=forking
 Restart=always


 # JAVA_HOME depend on os see more on Alfresco Community 23.x Install Java 
 Environment=JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk-amd64
 Environment=CATALINA_PID=/usr/local/alfresco-community23x/tomcat/temp/tomcat.pid
 Environment=CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/alfresco-community23x/tomcat
 Environment=CATALINA_BASE=/usr/local/alfresco-community23x/tomcat
 Environment='CATALINA_OPTS=-Xms3G -Xmx4G -Xss1024k -server -XX:+UseParallelGC'
 Environment='JAVA_OPTS=-Djava.awt.headless=true -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom'

 ExecStart=/usr/local/alfresco-community23x/tomcat/bin/startup.sh
 ExecStop=/bin/kill -15 $MAINPID
 WorkingDirectory=/usr/local/alfresco-community23x/tomcat
 User=alfresco
 Group=Alfresco

 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target

Reload demons
```
 $ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
```

Start and enable Tomcat at boot time

 # start
 $ sudo systemctl start tomcat

 # enable
 $ sudo systemctl enable tomcat

 # check status
 $ sudo systemctl status tomcat

 # output
 ● tomcat.service - Apache Tomcat Web Application Container
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Tue 2024-04-23 09:30:51 UTC; 17s ago
 Main PID: 3999 (java)
    Tasks: 31 (limit: 37387)
   Memory: 151.4M
      CPU: 5.799s
   CGroup: /system.slice/tomcat.service

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