Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of thufir
Subject: Re: hello world
If Apache installs then why not tomcat?
Apache is a software organization with numerous products; if by "Apache" you
mean httpd, it may be because the 3rd-party developers are more familiar with it so less
likely to screw it up. For Tomcat, they seem to take great delight in scattering its
files all over, using symlinks to try to link it all back up, along with highly modified
startup/shutdown scripts that add minor niceties but break anything but basic operation.
Use a real Tomcat, and see what happens.
- Chuck
Hi.
I usually do not agree with Chuck on the subject of the
benefits/inconvenients of third-party Tomcat packages.
But I must admit that, concerning Tomcat 5.x and Debian/Ubuntu, I do
agree with the comment above. The packager in that instance seems to
have a great imagination and a lot of fun scattering Tomcat all over the
place, in a way that makes it hard even to find out where to begin
unraveling the spaghetti-bowl of symlinks and directories.
Apparently, for Tomcat5.5, it is even so that installing the basic
Tomcat5.5 package (tomcat5.5) results in a Tomcat which starts up, but
answers with a blank page and an error 400 "no Host matches servername
localhost" when you try to access it via localhost:8180 (although there
is only one <Host> in server.xml, named "localhost").
You need to install the additional package tomcat5.5-webapps (which
installs the webapps in some base directory different from Tomcat
itself) to start seeing something (the basic Tomcat Welcome page).
I kind of imagine that this is because if Tomcat starts, but has
absolutely no documents or applications to serve in its document root,
it answers with that cryptic error message.
Now rather than recriminating at aeternum, does anyone know how to track
down said packager, so that maybe he could come here and see the errors
of his ways, or at least explain his logic here ? Same as for Debian
Tomcat5.5 itself, I haven't a clue where to start.
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