you should install the webapp package as well it comes separately if i remember correctly. 2010/3/15 testwreq wreq <testwreq at gmail.com> > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100315/a7a5b4cf/attachment-0005.html>