Tomcat: How to find out running tomcat version

Question

I\'m trying to get Appfuse + tomcat + jRebel working.

Appfuse by default uses Cargo to download tomcat (ver. 7.0.33) and deploy the application to it. I wish to use

Answer 1

We are running in a Windows environment and I had to find a way to get the Tomcat version outside of the Java environment. Without knowing the version, I could not determine the directories. I finally found the best way was to query the Tomcat service using:

C:\temp>sc query | find /I "tomcat"
SERVICE_NAME: Tomcat6
DISPLAY_NAME: Apache Tomcat 6.0 Tomcat6

Answer 2

execute the script in your tomcat/bin directory:

sh tomcat/bin/version.sh

Server version: Apache Tomcat/7.0.42
Server built:   Jul 2 2013 08:57:41
Server number:  7.0.42.0
OS Name:        Linux
OS Version:     2.6.32-042stab084.26
Architecture:   amd64
JVM Version:    1.7.0_21-b11
JVM Vendor:     Oracle Corporation

Answer 3

run the following

/usr/local/tomcat/bin/catalina.sh version

its response will be something like:

Using CATALINA_BASE:   /usr/local/tomcat
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /usr/local/tomcat
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /var/tmp/
Using JRE_HOME:        /usr
Using CLASSPATH:       /usr/local/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/local/tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
Using CATALINA_PID:    /var/catalina.pid
Server version: Apache Tomcat/7.0.30
Server built:   Sep 27 2012 05:13:37
Server number:  7.0.30.0
OS Name:        Linux
OS Version:     2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.x86_64
Architecture:   amd64
JVM Version:    1.7.0_60-b19
JVM Vendor:     Oracle Corporation

Answer 4

Using the release notes

In the main Tomcat folder you can find the RELEASE-NOTES file which contains the following lines (~line 20-21):

                Apache Tomcat Version 8.0.22
                        Release Notes

Or you can get the same information using command line:

• Windows:

  type RELEASE-NOTES | find "Apache Tomcat Version"
  

  Output:

               Apache Tomcat Version 8.0.22
  

• Linux:

  cat RELEASE-NOTES | grep "Apache Tomcat Version"
  

  Output:

               Apache Tomcat Version 8.0.22
  

Answer 5

To find out the Tomcat version, find this file – version.sh for *nix or version.bat for Windows. This version.sh file is normally located in the Tomcat bin folder.

phpmongodb@kumar:/usr/share/tomcat7/bin$ ./version.sh 

Note

If you are not sure where is the version.sh file, try this command :

sudo find / -name "version.sh"

Find out everything about Tomcat7.

sudo find / -name "tomcat7"

Answer 6

I have this challenge when working on an Ubuntu 18.04 Linux server.

Here's how I fixed it:

Run the command below to determine the location of your version.sh file:

sudo find / -name "version.sh"

For me the output was:

/opt/tomcat/bin/version.sh

Then, using the output, run the file (version.sh) as a shell script (sh):

sh /opt/tomcat/bin/version.sh

That's all.

I hope this helps