On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 05:28, Prince wrote:
> Hi
>
> What are the steps for installing tomcat 5 on Linux
>
> I have don ethese
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> Installed JDK
> untared everything from the Tomcat5 installation file to a tomcat5 directory
>
> set the JAVA_HOME and CATALINA_HOME
>
> when i give the command sh $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
> the following messages getting
>
> Using CATALINA_BASE:  /var/tomcat5
> Using CATALINA_HOME:  /var/tomcat5
> Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /var/tomcat5/temp
> Using JAVA_HOME:     /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03
>
> but http://siteaddress:8080 is not giving the homepage

try http://localhost:8080

>
> what could be the problem?
>
> How can I run tomcat as root?

Don't! create a tomcat user/group and change the ownership of
/var/tomcat to that.

>
> thanks in advance
> Prince
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Nick (Nix) Gray
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