1. Install all required packages

sudo apt-get install tomcat6 tomcat6-admin tomcat6-examples


Tomcat depends on a lot of other packages and the package manager will take care of that

2. Make sure the service is responding by entering url similar to this one in a browser:

http://{ipaddress}:8080/


Replace {ipaddress} with the ip address of your server

3. Create user and roles for the manager app. Replace the contents of your current file with something like this: (sudo pico /etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml)

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<tomcat-users>
<role rolename="manager" />
<role rolename="tomcat"/>
<user username="{username}" password="{password}" roles="tomcat,manager"/>
</tomcat-users>


Replace {username} and {password} with credentials of your choice.

4. Restart Tomcat

sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat6 restart


5. Enter the manager app with a browser

http://{ipaddress}:8080/manager/html


You can browse the examples using this location: http://{ipaddress}:8080/examples