Start Tomcat at boot time in Red Hat 8

The other day I installed a Tomcat server in Red Hat 8 for a client. The client had to reboot the server and couldn’t find a way to start it. I found a way to start Tomcat at boot time in Red Hat 8.

As usual, I needed to go for a walk around New York City in Brooklyn before taking on this one.

First, we need to create a startup script file for Tomcat in:

/etc/init.d

You can name this file tomcat and enter the below:

#!/bin/sh
export CATALINA_HOME="/usr/local/tomcat"
ERROR=0
case "$1" in
 start)
            echo $"Starting Tomcat"
            sh $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
            ;;
 stop)
           echo $"Stopping Tomcat"
           sh $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh
           ;;
 restart)
           sh $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh
           sh $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
            ;;
 *)
         echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
 exit 1
 ;;
esac
exit $ERROR

Assigned the permissions below:

chomod 755 tomcat

Next, create a symbolic link of the tomcat script inside the rc.d directory:

ln -s /etc/init.d/tomcat /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K24tomcat 
ln -s /etc/init.d/tomcat /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K28tomcat
ln -s /etc/init.d/tomcat /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S80tomcat
ln -s /etc/init.d/tomcat /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S81tomcat
ln -s /etc/init.d/tomcat /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S81tomcat

Go ahead and reboot your server and see if Tomcat starts automatically.

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