1. Installation

For Ubuntu and most distribution, you can install Tomcat via the following commands.

apt-get install tomcat7
apt-get install tomcat7-admin
apt-get install tomcat7-docs
apt-get install tomcat7-examples

2. Managing

# Restart
sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat7 restart

# Stop 
sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat7 stop 

3. Admin console

Tomcat provides a webbased adminstration console which can be started via the following link.

http://localhost:8080/manager/html 

The default user for the administration console of Tomcat is called admin with the admin password.

The available users can be found in the /conf/tomcat-users.xml directory of the Tomcat installation.

The user for the administrator console is not created automatically, you have to add the user entry manually to the /etc/tomcat7/tomcat-users.xml . The following listing gives an example for a user. To get more information try to login and see the resulting error message.

<role rolename="manager-gui" />
<user username="tomcat" password="s3cret" roles="manager-gui" />