TurnKey Linux Virtual Appliance Library

Tomcat on Apache Appliance

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Java Servlet and JSP Platform

Tomcat is a servlet container that implements the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages (JSP) specifications, and provides a "pure Java" HTTP web server environment for Java code to run in. Tomcat powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations.

Current version: 11.3 (changelog)Legacy versions

This appliance integrates Tomcat with the Apache web server. When a fully featured web server is not required, consider using the Standalone Tomcat Appliance.

This appliance includes all the standard features in TurnKey Core, and on top of that:

  • Tomcat on Apache configurations:
    • All components installed from package management.
    • Using OpenJDK Java runtime
    • Deployed web applications in /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps
    • TurnKey web control panel in /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/cp
    • JSP console output sent to syslog (/var/log/syslog)
    • Created Tomcat admin/manager roles and admin user
    • Use Apache2 Jk loadbalancer connector (performance)
    • JkMounts for admin, manager, host-manager applications (convenience)
    • Bind Tomcat AJP connector to localhost (security)
    • Removed Tomcat HTTP connector listener (security)
    • Set system wide Tomcat and Java environment variables
  • Includes MySQL
  • SSL support out of the box.
  • Includes Webmin module for configuring Apache2 and MySQL
Credentials (passwords set at first boot):
  • Webmin, SSH, MySQL: username root
  • Tomcat administration applications: username admin