Installing and configuring Tomcat

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Installation and configuration
This section describes how to install and configure eperi sEcure Platform for a test or POC environment. For a production environment, we recommend a cluster setup for performance reasons. If so, follow the steps as described in section administrator_manuals/en/concepts/egfca_cluster_setup.html.
Installation
Complete the following steps to install eperi sEcure Platform.
Manual installation
If an installation with the automated installation package is not possible, you can alternatively install eperi sEcure Platform manually as a web application archive (WAR file).
Install Tomcat
Install and configure a Tomcat Server on which the eperi sEcure Platform will be deployed.

Installing and configuring Tomcat

Install and configure a Tomcat Server on which the eperi sEcure Platform will be deployed.

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Note: The following procedure describes the installation under Ubuntu 16.04. and RHEL

Connect to the target server using your preferred ssh tool (e.g. putty) and log in.
Become the root user:
```
sudo su -
```

Install the Java 11 runtime (e.g. the OpenJDK 11 JRE):

For Ubuntu:

add-apt-repository ppa:openjdk-r/ppa
apt update
apt install openjdk-11-jre

For RHEL:

dnf install java-11-openjdk.x86_64

Download and install Tomcat 9 as described here: https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/RUNNING.txt

The Tomcat Server is installed and running on your system.

If you want to install eperi sEcure Platform release 3.18.2 or higher, continue with Setting security related HTTP Response headers. Otherwise continue with Deploying eperi sEcure Platform on Tomcat.