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NOTE: You can avoid step 2, 4, 5 and 6 and keep your Tomcat package in sync with the Redhat yum repo. However you'll end up with a somewhat mixed environment that may cause some issues. See http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CASUM/Switching+to+a+Sun+JVM+in+RHEL.
Step 1: Download and install Apache HTTP server
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