OK then. So Tomcat installed, and I start learning tomorrow. Thank you, folks. :-) [image: tom.png]
On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 at 17:59, Richard Monson-Haefel <monsonhae...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree with Olaf. My courses are for Tomcat 9. I would upgrade to 9. My > course shows you in detail how to install 9 on Linux (although I use > LinuxMint its all done with the bash shell so its should work just as as > well on CentOSO) > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 11:50 AM Olaf Kock <tom...@olafkock.de> wrote: > > > > > On 08.04.20 14:55, Andy Sloane wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I have set up a Linux CentOS 7 host, and have installed Tomcat 7... > > > > > > ... > > > I would like to learn how to develop webapps. > > > > > I see no particular reason to start with Tomcat 7. Most of the code that > > you will learn will be version independent, and the End of Life for > > Tomcat 7 is already set to March 2021. I'd recommend to go with Tomcat > > 9. Installation - especially for development purposes - will be trivial > > and is easier for development anyway. > > > > I'm assuming you're running the old version, because that's what the > > CenOS repositories hold. For development: No need to do this. > > > > I don't know Richard's course, but I assume that he'll talk about a > > development environment and installing a new dev environment as well: > > Use that, rather than whatever comes with CentOS. Access permissions on > > the files of a development server are far simpler than on fully > > public-server-enabled installs. > > > > Olaf > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > > > > -- > Richard Monson-Haefel > https://twitter.com/rmonson > https://www.linkedin.com/in/monsonhaefel/ >
