On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 01:07 +0300, Ali Helmy wrote: > Hey mates, > > I have the tomcat5 server that comes with fedora core 5 installed... > now I do [/etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat5 start] successfully as root, and > everything seems to go fine... however, when i try to go to > [http://localhost:8080/] which is supposed to be the tomcat test page, > firefox tells me it cant connect to the page... > > any ideas? Not sure where Tomcat is installed on FC5 but if you go to the Tomcat install directory and cd into the "logs" subdirectory and cat out the "catalina.out" file you should get an indication of whats going wrong and where. Charlie