# Start tomcat through tomcat-standalone

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/start-tomcat-through-tomcat-standalone/22229>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [August 7, 2016, 4:08am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/start-tomcat-through-tomcat-standalone/22229 "2016-08-07T04:08:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Anushri\_Mishra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/65b543/32.png) [@Anushri\_Mishra](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Anushri_Mishra)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 4:08am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/start-tomcat-through-tomcat-standalone/22229/1 "2016-08-07T04:08:50Z")

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hi, I am using tomcat standalone example from git-examples to start tomcat server but customised it a little meaning I already have tomcat installed  
and it starts fine by sudo service tomcat7 start. So this is my main.xml now. Commented out everything except starting tomcat part.

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**Author:** ![Dick\_Davies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Dick\_Davies](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dick_Davies)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 12:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/start-tomcat-through-tomcat-standalone/22229/2 "2016-08-07T12:23:44Z")

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It sounds like your service is called 'tomcat7' - change the service task.

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**Author:** ![Anushri\_Mishra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/65b543/32.png) [@Anushri\_Mishra](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Anushri_Mishra)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/start-tomcat-through-tomcat-standalone/22229/3 "2016-08-07T13:13:58Z")

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omg totally missed it !! Thanks so much !!