I can't install "tomcat". please help!

[forgotten field]

Hi,how are you?
I have been trying to install Tomcat 4.0.30 on my redhat 9 system
without any success.I also downloaded and installed j2skd 1.4.1 on my
system. It's just that when I try "http://localhost:8080" on my web
browser, I get the message that the connection to that port is
refused. I did it both as an ordinary user and a root, but I've got
the same error messages. I tried to search some infos on the net, but
could not find any. At this point, I just don't know what to do.
Please help me.
Thank you, and have a nice day.
PS: I use Mozilla web browser that came with my redhat 9.

 

[Rob Shepherd]

Hi,how are you?
I have been trying to install Tomcat 4.0.30 on my redhat 9 system
without any success.I also downloaded and installed j2skd 1.4.1 on my
system. It's just that when I try "http://localhost:8080" on my web
browser, I get the message that the connection to that port is
refused. I did it both as an ordinary user and a root, but I've got
the same error messages. I tried to search some infos on the net, but
could not find any. At this point, I just don't know what to do.
Please help me.
Thank you, and have a nice day.
PS: I use Mozilla web browser that came with my redhat 9.

This isn't the best newsgroup to find asnwers on this topic.

Try http://www.jguru.com/forums/Tomcat

does 'ps -ef' show tomcat is running?

if there's no server running, then there is nothing to connect to.
Browser/UserID will not make a difference

Rob

 

[Web Surfer]

[This followup was posted to comp.lang.java.programmer]

Hi,how are you?
I have been trying to install Tomcat 4.0.30 on my redhat 9 system
without any success.I also downloaded and installed j2skd 1.4.1 on my
system. It's just that when I try "http://localhost:8080" on my web
browser, I get the message that the connection to that port is
refused. I did it both as an ordinary user and a root, but I've got
the same error messages. I tried to search some infos on the net, but
could not find any. At this point, I just don't know what to do.
Please help me.
Thank you, and have a nice day.
PS: I use Mozilla web browser that came with my redhat 9.

Have you verified that the Tomcat server was successfully started ?

Also you might want to consider joining the Tomcat Users Mailing List.
On this list users post and answer questions that deal specifically with
Tomcat and you might get a better response if you post your questions
there rather than posting them in this newsgroup.

Also you might want to consider installing a more recent version of
Tomcat. I have Tomcat 5.0.16 running on my Redhat 9 system and it works
fine.

 

[Mason Bryant]

Have you verified that the Tomcat server was successfully started ?

I have 4.1.29 installed and running on redhat 9. You might look at the
log files which are in jakarta/logs/catalina.out (I think that is by
default). It often has someuseful information when tomcat fails to
start.

 

[forgotten field]

Thanking for your replies.
I am looking to see if Tomcat is running on my system when I try
"http://localhost:8080". But when I try "ps" command to see if the
process is really running, am I supposed to see "tomacat" as a process
name?
Thank you, and have a good day.

 

[Liz]

Thanking for your replies.
I am looking to see if Tomcat is running on my system when I try
"http://localhost:8080". But when I try "ps" command to see if the
process is really running, am I supposed to see "tomacat" as a process
name?

I have windows xp and it shows up as "java.exe".

 

[Mason Bryant]

Thanking for your replies.
I am looking to see if Tomcat is running on my system when I try
"http://localhost:8080". But when I try "ps" command to see if the
process is really running, am I supposed to see "tomacat" as a process
name?
Thank you, and have a good day.

The running program should be 'java'

ps axuww | grep java should show something.

Again, you'll probably want to see if there is anything in
jakarta/logs and see what you can see.