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I’m trying to start up Apache Tomcat on a Google cloud server. It’s a CentOS 7 server and has Apache Tomcat 8 on it. Instructions are https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-apache-tomcat-8-on-centos-7 but when I get to:

sudo systemctl start tomcat

I get the message:

Job for tomcat.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status tomcat.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

For systemctl status tomcat.service I get:

tomcat.service - Apache Tomcat Web Application Container

Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)

Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2017-12-29 17:04:47 UTC; 639ms ago

Process: 3526 ExecStart=/opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)



Dec 29 17:04:47 jira-dev systemd[1]: Unit tomcat.service entered failed state.

Dec 29 17:04:47 jira-dev systemd[1]: tomcat.service failed.

For journalctl -xe I can't post all of it because it "looks like spam" but I get:

-- The error number returned by this process is 13.

Dec 29 16:55:33 jira-dev systemd[1]: tomcat.service: control process exited, code=exited status=203

Dec 29 16:55:33 jira-dev systemd[1]: Failed to start Apache Tomcat Web Application Container.

-- Subject: Unit tomcat.service has failed

-- Defined-By: systemd

and

-- The result is failed.

Dec 29 16:55:33 jira-dev systemd[1]: Unit tomcat.service entered failed state.

Dec 29 16:55:33 jira-dev systemd[1]: tomcat.service failed.

Dec 29 16:55:44 jira-dev systemd[1]: tomcat.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.

Dec 29 16:55:44 jira-dev systemd[1]: Starting Apache Tomcat Web Application Container...

-- Subject: Unit tomcat.service has begun start-up

-- Defined-By: systemd

and

-- Unit tomcat.service has begun starting up. Dec 29 16:55:44 jira-dev systemd[3317]: Failed at step EXEC spawning /opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh: Permission denied

-- Subject: Process /opttomcat/bin/startup.sh could not be executed

-- Defined-By: systemd/

and

-- The error number returned by this process is 13.

Dec 29 16:55:44 jira-dev systemd[1]: tomcat.service: control process exited, code=exited status=203

Dec 29 16:55:44 jira-dev systemd[1]: Failed to start Apache Tomcat Web Application Container.

-- Subject: Unit tomcat.service has failed

-- Defined-By: systemd

The /etc/system/system/tomcat.service file looks like the one from the instructions.

I have also set JAVA_HOME, just in case.

I see the permission error, but I have given the tomcat user ownership of the tomcat directory as per CentOs 7.1 - Install Tomcat 8 with the command cd /opt && sudo chown -R tomcat tomcat/

I have also tried commenting out the Environment='CATALINA_OPTS=-Xms512M -Xmx1024M -server -XX:+UseParallelGC' line from the tomcat.service file, although it didn't help, so I un-commented it.

I'm running as root.

Since I ended up here and spent hours to figure it out

Error message

systemd[5189]: Failed at step EXEC spawning /opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh: Permission denied

I solved it by giving execute permission to bin folder.