I followed your wonderful guide explaining how to install Tomcat on Ubuntu 18.04 but on my server it does not work. I have some questions to ask you. Your guide is perfect but I struggle a lot with English and I’m not a systems engineer. 01 - When I start with step 1, do I need to be connected to the new user or can I use root? 02 - If I used root throughout the guide how can I start over again without making any other mess? 03 - Which commands can I launch from the terminal to figure out where I was wrong? To create the new user I used only these two commands:
adduser giampierotomcat
usermod -aG sudo giampierotomcat
04 - Is it right or do I have to follow all the guidance on the page to which the guide refers?
Thank you Giampiero
Your guide: https: //www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/install-tomcat-9-ubuntu-1804
P.S.: I use AWS EC2 like VPS.
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Hi @giacoccalo2018,
Thank you for your feedback about our tutorial on How To Install Apache Tomcat 9 on Ubuntu 18.04.
you should have a non-root user with sudo privileges set up on your server.
If you do the complete installation as the root user; you will not be able to start tomcat, so create a tomcat user as per the tutorial.
sudo systemctl start tomcat
Job for tomcat.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status tomcat.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
You can follow “Step 2 — Create Tomcat User” & “Step 4 — Update Permissions” from the tutorial.
You can follow the guide completely and drop a comment if you face any issues with errors that you are seeing.
Regards, Rajkishore
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