Installing Tomcat 6 on Fedora, Red Hat or CentOS
Install Tomcat using yum# yum install tomcat6-webappsTomcat will get installed across the following directories
/etc/tomcat6 conf files $CATALINA_HOME/confSet CATALINA_HOME in /etc/profile
/usr/share/java/tomcat6 libs $CATALINA_HOME/lib
/usr/share/tomcat6/bin executables $CATALINA_HOME/bin
/var/log/tomcat6 logs $CATALINA_HOME/logs
/var/cache/tomcat6/temp temp files $CATALINA_HOME/temp
/usr/share/tomcat6 home directory $CATALINA_HOME
/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps web apps $CATALINA_HOME/webapps
/var/cache/tomcat6/work compiled stuff $CATALINA_HOME/work
export CATALINE_HOME=/usr/share/tomcat6Tomcat can be stopped, started and restarted using the following commands
# service tomcat6 stop
# service tomcat6 start
# service tomcat6 restart
Credit :: http://serverfault.com/questions/194159/how-to-setup-tomcat-on-fedora