Pivotal/tcserver

tcserver

Overview

https://content.pivotal.io/blog/part-one-comparing-apache-tomcat-and-pivotal-tc-server
Pivotal tc server builds on top of Apache Tomcat and adds a few key features:

• Enterprise support (with purchased license)
• Multi-instance support with shared binaries - individual runtime instances allows a separation between the binaries and the applications/configuration, allowing one set of binaries to power multiple instances.
• Variable substitution within server.xml - allows for consistent configuration and port management

Note: Pivotal tcserver 3.x is available through the pivotal repo, however to get the latest version, 4.x, you need to download and install the RPM from pivnet manually.
https://tcserver.docs.pivotal.io/4x/docs-tcserver/topics/whats-new-4.0.0.html#rpm-packaging

Installing tcserver 3.x - Linux

In this example we will be installing tcserver 3.x on a CentOS 7 vm using the pivotal repo.

Adding the Pivotal Repo and installing the package

Accept the EULA

~$ wget -q -O - http://packages.pivotal.io | sudo sh

Verify you see the new package

~$ sudo yum search pivotal-tc-server-standard

Install tcserver, ant, and java

~$ sudo yum install pivotal-tc-server-standard ant java-1.8.0-openjdk

Setting the environment variables

To discover your Java home variable, you need to find the executable location and then use that to discover JAVA_HOME:

~$ which java
/bin/java
~$ /bin/java -XshowSettings:properties -version 2>&1 > /dev/null | grep 'java.home'
java.home = /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.181-3.b13.el7_5.x86_64/jre

Ant HOME should always be /usr/share/ant
With both the JAVA_HOME and ANT_HOME found, we can set the following in our bash profile: export JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.181-3.b13.el7_5.x86_64/jre" export ANT_HOME="/usr/share/ant" export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin You can use the following to append the variables in your bash profile, make sure to update the variables to match your versions.

~$ echo -e export JAVA_HOME='"'/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.181-3.b13.el7_5.x86_64/jre'"'"\n"export ANT_HOME='"'/usr/share/ant'"'"\n"export PATH='$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin' >> ~/.bash_profile