Install tomcat dynamic web server Navigate to desired installation directory: cd /path/to/installation Download tomcat tarball wget https://mirrors.koehn.com/apache/tomcat/tomcat-//bin/apache-tomcat.tar.gz Extract tarball: tar zxvf apache-tomcat.tar.gz Create an environmental variable in /etc/profile to allow Tomcat to start up and shutdown: CATALINA_HOME=/path/to/installation/apache-tomcat- export CATALINA_HOME PATH=$JAVA_HOME:$CATALINA_HOME:$PATH NOTE: make sure to inclde the $JAVA_HOME statement in PATH Open tomcat's default port (8080) in iptables. Add before the REJECT statement: -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 8080 -j ACCEPT Restart iptables service iptables restart Start tomcat server $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh Add tomcat startup script to /etc/init.d to start at boot cp $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh /etc/init.d/tomcat Test by going to site on port 8080 www.cts4348-node-13.cs.fiu.edu:8080