[rhelv6-beta-list] tomcat 6 with redhat 6

[bryan]

On 16/07/2010 12:30, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 7:12 AM, bryan<bryan at redfedora.co.uk>  wrote:
>    
>> Hi All
>>
>> Someone suggested that I post here rather than where I'd previously posted.
>>
>> I'd be really grateful to hear of anyones experiences of getting tomcat 6 up
>> and running with rpms and how you managed to do it. I think there are some
>> intracacies missing that I'm blissfully unaware of in getting this away and
>> it's driving me nuts. Just a do this in /etc/tomcat6 with the conf file and
>> make sure you have this done so it starts automatically, a bit of witchcraft
>> and consult the high priestess for the card reading is sufficient...I don't
>> want to go down the get the apache binary, create a tomcat user download
>> this from Sun etc route if I can avoid it.
>>      
> I got involved with this in RHEL 5, and using the JPackage repository,
> and fortunately RHEL has included tomcat 6 for the new RHEL 6 beta.
> Why don't you simply grab the SRPM and recompile from that, if you
> want to make updates or changes, or use the binary if you don't? This
> process is already integrated into that RPM and you can save yourself
> a lot of work over trying to re-architect the layout manually. That's
> what RPM's are *for*.
>
>    
Presumably you have this running then?

Any chance of telling me which files need to be altered where and why so 
that I can get an instance running? That's all I'm really after. I know 
rpms make life easy that's why I want to use it.

Thanks

Bryan