Tomcat

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On 6/9/07, Kristian Rink <kristian at zimmer428.net> wrote:
>
> Russ;
>
> > I used apt to install the package with no joy. It's there but not
> > responding
> > on the port from another machine on my network. Maybe I should install X
> on
> > the server so I can try it locally? What's the smallest X instal, xfwm?
>
> I wouldn't really bother installing X just because of _that_. :) There
> are some other ways testing this:
>
> - Install lynx and try "lynx http://localhost:8080/" from some console
> on your server.
>
> - More simple: Use "telnet localhost 8080" and, as soon as connected (if
> so...) try a "GET /" (+ENTER) to see whether you get the tomcat default
> page.
>
> - Make use of netstat to see whether tomcat actually is running -
> 'netstat -an | grep 8080' should return something like this:
>
> kr at kassiopeia:~ > netstat -an|grep 8080
> tcp6   0      0 :::8080                 :::*                    LISTEN
>
>
> - Search your filesystem for "catalina.out" which is the tomcat default
> log file filling with runtime information while the server is up and
> running...


Excellent information mate thanks!

And it proved that tomcat is alive and well.  ;)

It's on 8180 on my system by default.


> I've seen comments about downloading the binary and installing that way
> but
> > thought I'd rather stay with the package shipped with ubuntu.
>
> Some thoughts on that:
>
> - If you install tomcat from the Ubuntu repositories, I recommend
> enabling multiverse in your sources.list and get the sun-java5-jdk or
> sun-java6-jdk, possibly updating your configuration using
>
> sudo update-alternatives --config java


I did find a link that was also helpful for installing from the
repositories:

http://blixtra.org/blog/2006/07/14/setting-up-tomcat-5-on-ubuntu-606/


Thanks again!


-- 
Regards,
Russ
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