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Install Apache Tomcat on Debian

Category: VPS Setup

Deploy Apache Tomcat—a Java servlet container—on a Debian VPS—install Java with

apt install openjdk-17-jdk

download Tomcat from tomcat apache org extract to /opt/tomcat Start with

/opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh

open port with

ufw allow 8080

On Linode test with

curl http://ip:8080

—expect Tomcat page Verify uptime with

ps aux | grep tomcat

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