Installing Tomcat 5.5.9

1. Download the jakarta binary
2. $ cd /opt
3. $ sudo tar xvfz jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9.tar.gz
4. $ sudo groupadd -g 1371 tomcat
5. $ sudo useradd -u 1371 -g tomcat -c "Tomcat" -d /usr/local/tomcat -s "/sbin/nologin" tomcat
6. $ sudo chown -R tomcat:tomcat /opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/
7. $ sudo ln -s /opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/ /usr/local/tomcat
8. $ echo "CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat" >> ~/.bashrc
9. $ sudo /usr/local/tomcat/bin/startup.sh