• Step 1: Downloads Apache Tomcat
• Step 2: Create a user called "tomcat" to own the Tomcat installation.

# useradd tomcat

• Step 3: Change user 

# su - tomcat

• Step 4: FTP and untar Downloaded  to tomcat user base directory

$ tar xzf /tmp/jdk-8u77-linux-x64.tar.gz

• Step 5: Set the following environment variables and append them to the "/home/tomcat/.bash_profile" so they are set for subsequent logins. Remember to set the desired JAVA_HOME correctly.

export JAVA_HOME=/home/tomcat/jdk1.8.0_77
export CATALINA_HOME=/home/tomcat/apache-tomcat-7.0.68
export CATALINA_BASE=$CATALINA_HOME

Step 5: Start and stop Tomcat using the following scripts.

$ $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
$ $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh

Checking the Status of Tomcat

There are several ways to check the status of the service.

$ netstat -nlp | grep 8080

tcp        0      0 :::8080                     :::*                        LISTEN      19034/java           

$

$ ps -ef | grep tomcat

$ curl -I http://localhost:8080

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1

Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1

Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 15:09:53 GMT