Quoting Chong Yu Meng <chongym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 09:05 -0700, Ryan Ollerenshaw wrote: > > I am attempting to run tomcat on Fedora Core 5 but I have not been able to > find > > much of any documentation on how to set it up. I did find several pages > that > > stated that the setup was very trivial and would not be covered. Not so > much > > the case for me. Here is what I have found and what I have done so far > > > > -Install j2sdk1.4.2_12 > > -Set JAVA_HOME environment variable > > -Execute the command: /etc/tomcat5/bin/startup.sh > > And I get: > > Using CATALINA_BASE: /etc/tomcat5/ > > Using CATALINA_HOME: /etc/tomcat5/ > > Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /etc/tomcat5//temp > > Using JRE_HOME: /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_12 > > > > Browse to http://myservername:8080/ > > > > After that I get nothing but a blank page. Is there something else in the > setup > > process that I am missing? > > > > Hi Ryan, > > I think you may have a iptables issue here. Can you run the following > first and paste the results in your reply: Thank you for the help is the output from the commands that you mentioned > netstat -an | grep 8080 # netstat -an | grep 8080 tcp 0 0 :::8080 :::* LISTEN > tail -20 /etc/tomcat/logs/catalina.out # tail -20 /etc/tomcat5/logs/catalina.out This release of Apache Tomcat was packaged to run on J2SE 5.0 or later. It can be run on earlier JVMs by downloading and installing a compatibility package from the Apache Tomcat binary download page. > The first command will tell you if Tomcat is running, while the second > command will show you the last 20 lines of the Tomcat log. If there are > problems starting up, the errors will show in the file catalina.out. > > BTW, the installation of Tomcat *is* trivial -- just download and unpack > the tarball. It is the configuration that will have you tearing (any) > hair (you have left) out! > > > -- > Pascal Chong > email: chongym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > web: http://cymulacrum.net > pgp: http://cymulacrum.net/pgp/cymulacrum.asc > > "La science ne connaît pas de frontière parce que la connaissance > appartient à lâ??humanité. et que câ??est la flamme qui illumine le monde." > > -- Louis Pasteur >
