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.