Create and open a new file in the /etc/system/system under the name rvice: sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/rviceДЈ. With that, you can move on to create the service file.Дў. Accordingly, it also shows two paths displaying their location.Д¬hoose the version you want to use and copy its location. In the terminal, type: sudo update-java-alternatives -lДЄs the output shows, there are two available versions of Java. To do so, prompt the system to give you information about the Java packages installed on the system.

This is the exact location of the Java installation package. To configure the file, you first need to find the JAVA_HOME path. Since you are going to to use Tomcat as a service, you need to create a systemd service file.ДЎ. Lastly, change script permissions to grant execute access in /opt/tomcat/bin/with: sudo sh -c 'chmod +x /opt/tomcat/bin/*.sh' Create System Unit File Grant group and user ownership over the installation directory to the tomcat group and user with the command: sudo chown -RH tomcat: /opt/tomcatДЈ. Move to the directory where the Tomcat installation is located: cd /opt/tomcatДў. You need to setup execute privileges over the directory.ДЎ.

The new Tomcat user you created does not have executable privileges, but it needs to access the installation directory. Then, extract the file in the new directory with the following command: sudo tar xzvf apache-tomcat-9*tar.gz -C /opt/tomcat -strip-components=1 Modify Tomcat User Permission To extract the tar.gz Tomcat file, create a new /opt/tomcat/ directory with the command: sudo mkdir /opt/tomcatДў.

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