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. > > 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? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com