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What is the recommended/standard install path for apache-tomcat on a linux box

Asked 2009-02-23T15:43:54.350
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Hello I am looking to install Apache-Tomcat on a RedHat linux and I am interested if there is a standard place for this to be installed. in other work I have seen tomcat installed at

/opt/apache-tomcat-[VERSION]/

but I would expect it to be found under /usr. Best answer will have a link to authoritative site.

Thanks so much,

David.

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I don't know if there's such a thing as an "official" place, but a reasonable thing to do would be to do what you've done and refer to tomcat through a softlink at /usr/local/tomcat or some such, which would allow you to upgrade versions by simply installing a new version in opt and changing the softlink.

answered 2009-02-23T15:49:27.533

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