Also, I should mention that I also couldn't get it to work with java 7.
So I added
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main
to /etc/apt/sources.list
Installed
apt-get install -t jessie-backports openjdk-8-jre-headless ca-certificates-java tomcat8 tomcat8-admin
And deployed it using the web manager interface that is linked from the default tomcat webpage.
I also upped the memory and cache sizes based on message I saw in the logs.
So I added
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main
to /etc/apt/sources.list
Installed
apt-get install -t jessie-backports openjdk-8-jre-headless ca-certificates-java tomcat8 tomcat8-admin
And deployed it using the web manager interface that is linked from the default tomcat webpage.
I also upped the memory and cache sizes based on message I saw in the logs.