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    The Apache Tomcat software is an open source which helps to run Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language and Java Web-socket technologies. For your better understanding apache tomcat is a web server that serves JSP pages.     Apache Tomcat is trademark of the Apache Software Foundation.     In this articles we are going to install Apache Tomcat through source file on /usr/local/ directory. Where we going to run our web server. The default port for Apache Tomcat is 8080 .     Installing from source used to be very common and also quite simple. You would download the source file, unpack it (with either zip or tar), then issue the commands to the the directory you want to install it. Requirements to Run Apache Tomcat server:     Java to be installed, There is a single requirement for Apache tomcat that is your server should be installed with Java or JDK. Installing Java:     We are going to install JDK 8 since it helps to run the tomcat more

     In this article we are going to see how to install different Java version on your linux system and also how to make it as a default one. Installing through yum:     When we install java directly the current version is JDK-1.8.0_181 $ yum install java     To check the version of the Java use the below command, $ which java jhony@ljunix~$ which java /usr/bin/java $ java -version jhony@ljunix~$ java -version openjdk version "1.8.0_181" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_181-b13) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.181-b13, mixed mode)     We can run our applications on different Java versions through source installation. Installing through source:     Download the latest file from the official site. Click the following link for downloading the latest version ORACLE.COM . You have to accept the License Agreement to get the download link for the required version. Note: You cannot download the package through wget. It is recommended to down