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