{"id":28471,"date":"2015-04-01T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cpanel.com\/?p=28471"},"modified":"2015-04-01T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T13:00:00","slug":"tomcat-support-in-centos-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devel.www.cpanel.net\/blog\/products\/tomcat-support-in-centos-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomcat support in CentOS 7"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tomcat has had a great run with cPanel & WHM. Unfortunately, there are times in life when you know it’s time to say goodbye and gracefully remove yourself from the spotlight to allow others to get the chance to shine.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n As you may know, cPanel will provide its first release of CentOS 7 support starting with cPanel & WHM version 11.50. For a variety of reasons, we will not be supporting Tomcat in CentOS 7.<\/span><\/p>\n The Tomcat version that cPanel currently supports is out of date and not supported by CentOS 7. Updating Tomcat to a newer version requires many\u00a0<\/span>dependency<\/span>\u00a0changes that cannot be fulfilled by the OS directly. Less than 0.1% of our user base uses Tomcat, and we feel that the amount of effort that it would take to get Tomcat running on CentOS 7 is better spent on EasyApache 4 and future expansion.<\/span><\/p>\n Our upcoming EasyApache release will ensure that Tomcat is no longer be available in either the EasyApache interface or the command line tools for servers running CentOS 7 or higher.<\/span><\/p>\n While it’s possible that Tomcat support will come back eventually, at this time our focus is shifting to EasyApache 4 and making the web stack expandable and customizable.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Update: As we announce the end of EasyApache 3 support, we also announce that we will be adding support for Tomcat to EasyApache 4. We talk about it in EasyApache 3: It’s been a long road but it will be time to say goodbye soon! Tomcat has had a great run with cPanel & WHM. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[661,325,1045],"class_list":["post-28471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-products","tag-easyapache","tag-product-development","tag-tomcat"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n