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.