CentOS List wrote:
>> I did a yum -y install tomcat5 and tomcat got installed with
openjdk.
>> But >> somehow if I goto http://localhost:8080 >> I am unable to get to the tomcat default site.
>> Correction. I got to a blank page. Do a 'yum search tomcat' and note that there are several packages. If you want the admin site and sample webapps you have to install the corresponding packages.
Results as follows:-
=============================== Matched: tomcat
tomcat5-admin-webapps.i386 : The administrative web applications for
Jakarta
: Tomcattomcat5-webapps.i386 : Web applications for Jakarta Tomcat
Are these two installed? Or do you want them? If you are going to supply your own ROOT application you shouldn't need them, but if you want to see something by default or have web administration access you would.
Yes those are installed. I will need to have the administration site To manage. But it wont show up. Just a blank page
Have you installed anything else that might conflict or replace components? Does 'java -version' show java version "1.6.0"? The default page should be what is at /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/ROOT/index.jsp. Does that look normal? Do you get something at http://localhost:8080/admin or http://localhost:8080/manager/html?
[root@localhost ~]# java -version java version "1.6.0" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-b09) OpenJDK Client VM (build 1.6.0-b09, mixed mode)
I do have a /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps but it does not has the ROOT folder
[root@localhost webapps]# ls -la total 16 drwxrwxr-x 2 root tomcat 4096 Jul 28 05:24 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Aug 26 04:17 ..
Since there isn't a ROOT folder, I guess I cannot access to admin or the manager site. But how come I don't have the ROOT folder and I am unable to locate it anywhere.
Try an "rpm -e tomcat5-webapps" and let yum install it again.