On Tue, 28 Apr, 2020 at 11:44:20 +0200, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote:
Hi,
We're running some web apps on CentOS 6 on Tomcat 6 shipped by the distribution.
As time goes by we'd like to move on to CentOS 8 and Tomcat 9 or whatever is appropriate.
My question is, what do others use now that Tomcat is not shipped anymore with CentOS?
Do you run some JBoss/WildFly instead or still running Tomcat?
And, how do you install/manage those installations. Do you have RPM packaged versions or fiddle with tarballs?
Since this is a quite standard setup for web apps I'm really wondering how everybody is doing it these days?
I use the tarball provided by upstream on CentOS 7, since the distro-provided version is quite old. I created a 'tomcat' system user and gave it ownership of the extracted files under /opt. I also wrote a simple systemd unit file to manage the service in the usual way.
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