Debian: Install Tomcat 8 on Debian 8 Jessie

1. add this code in /etc/apt/sources.list . You can skip this step if you have already added this lines of code.

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib non-free

2. Install tomcat server.

apt-get install tomcat8

3. Install tomcat useful modules.

apt-get instal default-jdk

apt-get install tomcat8-admin tomcat8-examples tomcat8-docs

4. Tomcat 8 initial configuration.

vi /etc/tomcat8/tomcat-users.xml

in the block <tomcat-users></tomcat-users> add this code

<user username="admin" password="password" roles="manager-gui,admin-gui,manager-script,admin"/>

5. Test the Tomcat 8 server in your web browser.

localhost:8080

 localhost:8080/docs/

localhost:8080/examples/

 localhost:8080/manager/html

localhost:8080/host-manager/html