[CentOS] Tomcat 5.23 help - http://hostname:8080 is an empty page.

Mon Mar 15 15:39:21 UTC 2010
Raffaele Camarda <raffaele.camarda at gmail.com>

you should install the webapp package as well it comes separately if i
remember correctly.

2010/3/15 testwreq wreq <testwreq at gmail.com>

> I installed tomcat 5.23 from the yum install of centos5.3 and have started
> tomcat on port 8080 . The http://hostname:8080 shows a blank page. In a
> standard Tomcat distribution, the default application is located in the ROOT
> directory /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps: From centos installation, this directory
> is empty. Please help us to bring up the apache-tomcat installation page.
>
> tomcat5.conf has the following settings
> CATALINA_HOME="/usr/share/tomcat5"
> JASPER_HOME="/usr/share/tomcat5"
> CATALINA_TMPDIR="/usr/share/tomcat5/temp"
> JAVA_ENDORSED_DIRS="/usr/share/tomcat5/common/endorsed"
>
> I see the following in /usr/share/tomcat5 after installtion. Why is webapps
> folder empty?
> drwxr-xr-x 2 tomcat root 4096 Mar 10 09:27 bin
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root   23 Mar 10 09:27 common ->
> /var/lib/tomcat5/common
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root   12 Mar 10 09:27 conf -> /etc/tomcat5
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root   16 Mar 10 09:27 logs -> /var/log/tomcat5
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root   23 Mar 10 09:27 server ->
> /var/lib/tomcat5/server
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root   23 Mar 10 09:27 shared ->
> /var/lib/tomcat5/shared
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root   23 Mar 10 09:27 temp -> /var/cache/tomcat5/temp
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root   24 Mar 10 09:27 webapps ->
> /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root   23 Mar 10 09:27 work -> /var/cache/tomcat5/work
>
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