Guacamole+CentOS7+Tomcat8+APR
 

So I'm looking to setup a CentOS 7 VM on my home ESXi server but I want to do it what I consider "right".

I want to use CentOS 7 because it's pretty much RHEL 7 so anything I do I could replicate in a work environment line for line. Also i want to use the latest version of the OS.

I want to use tomcat 8 because it's the latest version of tomcat, though even using the epel repos only tomcat 7 gets installed (even with the SUI repo added yum list doesn't show any but ver 7) So is there a repo that would give me tomcat 8 and apply updates as the repo get updated? (kinda want to avoid custom built components as much as possible.)

I want to use the APR listener because it has better SSL support (IE you can fix the ciphers better with it.)

Also I want to use LDAP for auth and something else for storing the connections, because I have a MS AD running at home.

would someone be willing to help me?

If there is a repo with tomcat 8 in it I'm not sure which repo it would be in.
There are 4 different repo's that I know of.
RPMForge is now RepoForge. Aside from that there is Epel, Remi and Atrpms repositories.

Have you tried yum install tomcat8?

I could only find tomcat 8 as a direct Download.
https://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi
http://tecadmin.net/install-tomcat-8...el-and-ubuntu/

When you perform a fresh installation of CentOS and you run the first update the os should be comptlely up-to-date.

I not on a server so I won't be much help there.