Installing Java and Tomcat (without apache) on base Linux system (Amazon EC2 Fedora Core 4 image)

For YIQYAQ we're running Tomcat as the web server, on basic Linux Fedore Core 4 images at Amazon EC2. These are the steps taken to install Java and Tomcat on those systems and get it running. I'm not much of a Linux, Java, or Tomcat expert, so I can't say these are the best steps to take, only that they're what I did and they seem to work.

1. Get java from http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp, install JRE self extracting file jre-6u3-linux-i586.bin into the root of the linux system, then follow these command from the linux system
   
1. mkdir /java
2. mv /jre-6u3-linux-i586.bin /java/
3. cd /java
4. chmod 555 jre-6u3-linux-i586.bin
5. ./jre-6u3-linux-i586.bin
6. rm jre-6u3-linux-i586.bin
2. Setup Java environment variables
1. cd ~
2. nano .bash_profile
3. add lines
   JAVA_HOME=/java/jre1.6.0_03
   export JAVA_HOME
   JAVAHOME=/java/jre1.6.0_03
   export JAVAHOME
4. lower down, change from
   PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
   to
   PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:$JAVA_HOME/bin
5. exit nano, exit shell, and restart shell to get new environment set up
   
3. Download tomcat 6.0.14 from http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi#6.0.14 to the root of your linux system as apache-tomcat-6.0.14.tar.gz, and follow these commands to install it
1. mkdir /tomcat
2. cd /tomcat
3. mv /apache-tomcat-6.0.14.tar.gz .
4. gunzip -c apache-tomcat-6.0.14.tar.gz | tar xopf –
5. rm apache-tomcat-6.0.14.tar.gz
4. Setup environment variables for tomcat
1. cd ~
2. nano .bash_profile
3. add lines
   CATALINA_HOME=/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.14
   export CATALINA_HOME
4. exit nano, exit shell, and restart shell to get new environment set up
5. Test that tomcat is working.
1. cd ~CATALINA_HOME/bin
2. ./startup.sh
3. From browser, verify that http://your-web-domain-address:8080/ returns the default tomcat page
   
6. Change tomcat to run on port 80 instead of 8080
1. cd $CATALINA_HOME
2. cp conf/server.xml conf/server.xml.original
3. nano conf/server.xml
4. replace all 8080 with 80, then exit and save
5. bin/shutdown.sh
6. bin/startup.sh
3. From browser, verify that http://your-web-domain-address/ returns the default tomcat page
   
7. Setup manager for Tomcat
1. nano $CATALINA_HOME/conf/tomcat-users.xml
2. add this user
   <tomcat-users>
   <role rolename="standard"/>
   <role rolename="manager"/>
   <user username="managername" password="managerpwd" roles="standard,manager"/>
   </tomcat-users>
   replace managername and managerpwd with your real, super-duper top-secret values
   
3. restart tomcat
   $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh
   $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh

That's it. All done.

Installing ImageMagick with JPEG and PNG Support

ImageMagick is a set of command-line tools for manipulating image files. By default it supports GIF but not the other command interweb formats of JPG (JPEG) and PNG. These are the steps I followed to install ImageMagick on an Amazon EC2 Fedora core-4 Linux image.

This process is also described at Installing ImageMagick with JPEG, TIFF and PNG Support, but I had some problems with a couple of the commands there, it was using files older than the current, and it included TIFF support which I don't expect to be using.

The first step was to get the required source files for each of the components required. These are the files I retrieved, and the web addresses were I retrieved them. (Note, the exact version numbers change over time.) Each of the .tar.gz files I downloaded and copied to the /usr/local/src directory of my EC2 linux system.

• ImageMagick.tar.gz from http://imagemagick.org/script/install-source.php#unix
• libpng-1.2.23.tar.gz from http://libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
• jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz from http://www.ijg.org/files/
• zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz from http://www.zlib.net/

from my linux image I then performed these commands (and in this order) to unpack, compile, and install the components and ImageMagick.

1. cd /usr/local/src
2. gunzip -c zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz | tar xvf -
3. rm zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
4. cd zlib-1.2.3
5. ./configure
6. make
7. make install
8. cd /usr/local/src
9. gunzip -c libpng-1.2.23.tar.gz | tar xvf -
10. rm libpng-1.2.23.tar.gz
11. cd libpng-1.2.23
12. ./configure
13. make
14. make install
15. cd /usr/local/src
16. gunzip -c jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz | tar xvf -
17. rm jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
18. cd jpeg-6b
19. ./configure --enable-shared
20. make
21. make install
    [may need to create man directories]
22. cd /usr/local/src
23. gunzip -c ImageMagick.tar.gz | tar xvf -
24. rm ImageMagick.tar.gz
25. cd ImageMagick-6.3.7
26. ./configure
    [verify that jpeg and png are on]
27. make
28. make install

Now run a simple test to see that ImageMagick is working

1. cd /
2. identify –list Format
   [verify that jpeg and png are on]
3. convert logo: logo.gif
4. convert logo: logo.jpg
5. convert logo: logo.png
   [verify with separate viewer that this images are all OK]
   

That's it. The ImageMagick command are now ready.

Installing GCC on Amazon EC2 fedora core 4 base

I'm using the ec2-public-images/fedora-core4-base.manifest.xml image on Amazon's EC2 system. (I don't know how this differs from the develop-image.manifest.xml, but wanted to start with something as basic as possible).

This image comes without a GCC compiler. There's almost nothing you can make out of Linux without a compiler.

Adding a compiler is a piece of cake with this command

yum install gcc

That's it. super easy. You can find more about yum (such as yum update) here.