With this link:
http://docs.lucee.org/guides/running-lucee/windows/installing-and-configuring-lucee-jar-file-on-windows.html
i was able to get a working installation of lucee on CentOS 6.9, i made some correction regarding the place of the jars but its working. Thank you very much.
Install tomcat
create a dir in tomcat home named lucee
place the lucee-jars in the lucee folder in tomcat home
edit the common loader in {tomcat home}/conf/server.xml as mentioned in the link on top of this post
Edit the {tomcat home}/conf/web.xml to load the cfml applets as mentioned in the link top of this post
Create a site in {tomcat home}/conf/server.xml using this page
http://docs.lucee.org/guides/Various/installation-installer-documentation/lucee-server-adminstration-linux/adding-new-site.html
Create a proxy config when using httpd:
http://docs.lucee.org/guides/Various/installation-installer-documentation/lucee-server-adminstration-linux/adding-new-site.html
When you are migrating from lucee installer to tomcat make sure you install the website once using the lucee installer, grab the WEB-INF folder lucee installer copies to the home folder of your site, when configuring the site without lucee you need to add this folder.
Maybey with some more troublshooting i can get the war file to work, but all my previous attempts failed
Thank you once again!