On 3/15/2010 10:30 AM, testwreq wreq wrote: > 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? Do a 'yum search tomcat5' to see the available packages and install any that are missing. tomcat5-webapps and tomcat5-admin-webapps are separate packages. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com