<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3"><font face="Consolas">I installed tomcat 5.23 from the yum install of centos5.3 and have started tomcat on port 8080 . The <a href="http://hostname:8080">http://hostname:8080</a> 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.</font></font></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3"><font face="Consolas">tomcat5.conf has the following settings</font></font></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3"><font face="Consolas">CATALINA_HOME="/usr/share/tomcat5"<br>JASPER_HOME="/usr/share/tomcat5"<br>CATALINA_TMPDIR="/usr/share/tomcat5/temp"<br>
JAVA_ENDORSED_DIRS="/usr/share/tomcat5/common/endorsed"</font></font></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3"><font face="Consolas">I see the following in /usr/share/tomcat5 after installtion. Why is webapps folder empty?</font></font></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoPlainText"><font size="3"><font face="Consolas">drwxr-xr-x 2 tomcat root 4096 Mar 10 09:27 bin<br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root 23 Mar 10 09:27 common -> /var/lib/tomcat5/common<br>
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root 12 Mar 10 09:27 conf -> /etc/tomcat5<br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root 16 Mar 10 09:27 logs -> /var/log/tomcat5<br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root 23 Mar 10 09:27 server -> /var/lib/tomcat5/server<br>
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root 23 Mar 10 09:27 shared -> /var/lib/tomcat5/shared<br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root 23 Mar 10 09:27 temp -> /var/cache/tomcat5/temp<br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root 24 Mar 10 09:27 webapps -> /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps<br>
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root 23 Mar 10 09:27 work -> /var/cache/tomcat5/work<br></font></font></div>