[CentOS] Tomcat 6 and Java 1.6

Tue Aug 25 17:25:22 UTC 2009
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

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
>                            : Tomcat
> tomcat5-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.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com