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From: "Adam Posner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <users@tomcat.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 3:37 AM
Subject: tomcat 5.5 loads a blank page
Hi,
I'm new to this newsgroup and have a vexing problem.
I run tomcat using the startup script, for ex. /usr/share/tomcat5.5/bin
startup.sh and everything startsup with no errors, ie:
Using CATALINA_BASE: /usr/share/tomcat5.5
Using CATALINA_HOME: /usr/share/tomcat5.5
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/share/tomcat5.5/temp
Using JRE_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun
but if I go to localhost:8180 a blank page is displayed with no errors in
catalina.out.
Here's the output from catalina.out when I startup tomcat as above:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# tail -f /usr/share/tomcat5.5/logs/catalina.out
Jun 23, 2008 5:56:50 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8180
Jun 23, 2008 5:56:50 PM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
Jun 23, 2008 5:56:50 PM org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/58 config=null
Jun 23, 2008 5:56:50 PM org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreLoader load
INFO: Find registry server-registry.xml at classpath resource
Jun 23, 2008 5:56:50 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 599 ms
As I said I get the blank page when going to localhost:8180, and nothing
added to catalina.out, so no help in figuring this problem out.
As a comparison, I get the normal index.html page displayed when I go to
/usr/local/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.14/bin and run the startup script
there
and go to localhost:8080. (i have both tomcats installed. I'll explain
more
on this later)
I did a search and there is actually no index.html page in my tomcat5.5
installation. I installed this version from the ubuntu(gutsy)
repositories
using apt-get.
The /usr/share/tomcat5.5/webapps directory is empty there whereas the
other,
/usr/local/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.14/webapps/ROOT/index.html, isn't.
Not sure this matters, though.
It seems like the home directories for the 2 tomcat installations are set
up
a bit differently:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls /usr/share/tomcat5.5/
bin common conf doc logs server shared temp webapps work
versus
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls /usr/local/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.14
bin lib logs RELEASE-NOTES temp work
conf LICENSE NOTICE RUNNING.txt webapps
Now to the reason I'm using tomcat5.5 instead of the latest version. I'm
trying to do web development using eclipse. I had to install eclipse using
apt-get also.
(After a week of trying to get the latest version of eclipse working from
a
manual download, I gave up)
So I have eclipse 3.2.2 WTP with tomcat5.5 and I have a sample webapp that
I
did using an eclipse tutorial, and everything seems to work,
I can start tomcat server from eclipse with no errors, but the same thing
happens. When I go to load the jsp it's blank.
I am totally clueless on this one, so any ideas would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks,
Adam Posner
Adam, we dont use Ubuntu, the guru's here use debian, but as policy we never
install the JDK nor the Tomcat that comes with linux. They not quite to
same, and it depends on what the distribution felt like doing to it.
You can get the 5.5.25 version from the download site, I would just grab it
an unpack it to your installed location... look at the Archive pages
http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-5/
ie... do the apt-get or whatever ubuntu does, then put the real tomcat over
the other one.
If the JRE doesnt work, get Suns JRE... but if eclipse is working, then prob
ok, but if for example you where going to try Netbeans, then I would make
sure that its on Suns JRE...
Its just linux dists, they all make a different lucky packet ;)
Good luck ;)
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