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