title: AWS - Installing Tomcat 8 on EC2
body: <p>I’m trying to install Tomcat8 on EC2 (I installed Java8 first). However, when I try to list all available tomcats using: </p>
  
  <pre><code>yum list available | grep tomcat
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>tomcat versions do not show up and this is what I get:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ujAdW.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ujAdW.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>Moreover, when I installed the tomcat in the snapshot above using this command:</p>
  
  <pre><code>yum install tomcat tomcat-webapps tomcat-admin-webapps tomcat-docs-webapp
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>then I tried to start the server using:</p>
  
  <pre><code>service tomcat start
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I ended up with:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start tomcat.service
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and the server  doesn't work.</p>
  
  <p>Can you help please?</p>