When you enter localhost:8080 the browser treis to speak to a server on port 8080, where Tomcat runs by default.
When you just enter localhost, the browser uses the default HTTP port of 80. Presumably, you do not have a server listening to that port. Make sense? -- Jonathan Rosenberg Founder & Executive Director Tabby's Place, a Cat Sanctuary http://www.tabbysplace.org/ On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:36 PM, ken dias <kend...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Questions:1. how to get response (not error) when i type localhost2. why > does it work in one case and not the other > please don't try to be funny, answer the question or don't reply > >> From: chuck.caldar...@unisys.com >> To: users@tomcat.apache.org >> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:16:38 -0600 >> Subject: RE: tomcat server >> >> > From: ken dias [mailto:kend...@hotmail.com] >> > Subject: tomcat server >> >> > I started the Tomcat webserver. When I keyin "localhost:8080", >> > I get the apache-tomcat webpage and can run the examples. >> > however, when i keyin "localhost" only, i get error. >> >> As you should. Do you have a question? >> >> - Chuck >> >> >> THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY >> MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received >> this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its >> attachments from all computers. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
