How to Tomcat 5, Part 2

How to Tomcat 5, Part 2
By Alexandre Patchine

How do we install one Tomcat server to share it between many users?

After default (with default parameters offered by an installation program) installation of Tomcat for single user you get such directory structure under $CATALINA_HOME directory:

bin - contains startup and binary files
common - contains all the external libraries which are used by Tomcat (not Tomcat classes here, look for them at server directory)
common/classes
common/endorsed
common/i18n
common/lib
conf - all major configuration files are here
logs - here you find "famous" catalina.out log file and saved previous catalina.out and more logs, like manager.log, admin.log, host-manager.log
server - here are Tomcat class files, packed in jar files and plus configuration files for host-manager and manager. Who are them? Read later
shared - here shared classes should be
temp - place for some temp things... Do not know exactly what it is. On my machine I see bugzilla37035-safeToDelete.tmp file with 0 bytes length here.
webapps - place where your web applications are/will be.
work - here Tomcat will place class files after the compilation. As you probably know, Tomcat "compiles" first JSP pages into servlet java code and then compiles those servlets into class files. That's why Tomcat named servlet container, not JSP container

Now, when you got an overview on Tomcat structure, we are ready to go further.

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How to Tomcat 5? Part 1

How to Tomcat 5? Part 1

I had no problem with Tomcat installation and all installation packages which I tried, worked fine for me. I will not describe all installation steps, you always can find the details on it on the home site for Apache Tomcat.

It was a few years ago, when Tomcat had version 4.1.0. My first impression was that I am swimming in a swamp, so slow Tomcat was. The whole memory on my computer was consumed by Tomcat, every click on my program interface resulted in freezing the whole machine for second. The prstat (program in Solaris to supervise processes status, in Linux it is top command) indicated that CPU jumped to 100%.

After 5 years with Apache server I was completely disappointed...

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