Tomcat 4 RPM info the RPM will be named tomcat4 to allow coexistence with the actual tomcat 3.x RPM (3.2.x and 3.3) Here is the release notes for the tomcat4.0.x RPM builds. o Starting with Tomcat 4.1.9, there is 3 differents kind of rpm for tomcat4, following the 2 Tomcat 4 packages available at jakarta.apache.org and one in respect of rpm policies, ie requiring external package to be installed. - TOMCAT 4 LIGHT EDITION FOR JDK 1.4 This version is a minimal Tomcat 4.0 release with no support for javamail, tyrex extensions. So it didn't include activation, javamail, jdbc2ext, or tyrex. To meet RPM packaging policies, some required packages like jakarta-regexp 1.2, servlet API 2.3 and an XML parser (ie xerces 1.44), will be linked in tomcat4 directories at install time and as such, should be present in system before tomcat4. - TOMCAT 4 FULL EDITION This version include full support for javamail, jndi and tyrex datasources. The rpm include activation.jar, javamail.jar, jdbc2ext and tyrex 1.0 The rpm also include jndi.jar for JDK 1.2. It also include jakarta-regexp 1.2 and servlet 2.3 APIs, and xerces 2.1.0 - TOMCAT 4 STRICT EDITION This version include only tomcat stuff, and require many external rpm packages, could you find at JPackage site, http://www.jpackage.org : ant >= 1.5 jakarta-commons-beanutils >= 1.4.1 jakarta-commons-collections >= 2.0 jakarta-commons-daemon jakarta-commons-dbcp jakarta-commons-digester >= 1.3 jakarta-commons-lang jakarta-commons-logging >= 1.0.1 jakarta-commons-modeler jakarta-commons-pool >= 1.0.1 jaas jaf >= 1.0.1 (activation) javamail-monolithic >= 1.3 jaxp_parser_impl (ie xerces-j2 2.0.2) jdbc-stdext >= 2.0 jndi >= 1.2.1 jta >= 1.0.1 mx4j >= 1.1 regexp = 1.2 servletapi4 >= 4.0.4 tyrex = 1.0 xml-commons-apis o SSL support SSL support is compiled in, but due to crypto regulation, JSSE jars are not distributed with either version of Tomcat 4 rpm. To make use of SSL, you should have JDK 1.4 or JSSE 1.0.3 jars in CLASSPATH, or in server/lib. If you have JSSE jars on your system, jcert.jar, jsse.jar, jnet.jar, just define JSSE_HOME in /etc/tomcat4/tomcat4.conf those JAR files will be added to thei system class path. o FHS layout Starting with Tomcat 4.O.4, rpm is more FHS compliant, configuration is on /etc/tomcat4/, log goes in /var/log/tomcat4, run files in /var/cache/tomcat4/work and temp files in /var/cache/tomcat4/temp. To make Tomcat 4 works, symlinks are made between real FHS location and basedir, /var/tomcat4, location o Java SDK used Starting with Tomcat 4.O.4 rpm release 2, SDK used is no more set by default to the IBM SDK 1.3.1 rpm location. You'll have to create a /etc/java/java.conf and set at least JAVA_HOME is it, ie : - /etc/java/java.conf - # Where your java installation lives # examples # Sun SDK 1.4.0_01 rpm # JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0_01 # Sun SDK 1.3.1_03 rpm # JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.3.1_03 # IBM SDK 1.3.1 rpm JAVA_HOME="/opt/IBMJava2-131" o Tomcat 4 configuration A configuration file /etc/tomcat4/tomcat4.conf is loaded before Tomcat or Jasper start and could be used to tuned JVM params o Tomcat 4 / Jasper 4 invocation Tomcat 4.0 invoker script is tomcat4, Jasper 4.0 is jasper4 Take a look at /etc/tomcat4/tomcat4.conf for tuning o Running mode For security purposes tomcat4 will run as user tomcat4, which will be created by rpm at install time. Warning this user should have a login shell to be able to use the su exec command logs, work, temp and webapps are now owned by tomcat4:tomcat4 user at rpm install time o Listen ports Starting with Tomcat 4.0.4, Tomcat 4.0 will listen on standard ports, ie port 8080 (HTTP 1.1), 8081 (HTTP 1.0), 8443 (HTTP SSL), 8009 (AJP13), 8008 (WARP). To avoid collision with running TC 3.x, you could use the /usr/bin/reloctomcat4 command which will change these ports to 8180, 8181, 8453 and 8109.