Tomcat 6.0.16 installed, but does not display HTML or JSP files

edwarrj1 · 02-21-2008, 12:36 PM

Hi.

I have installed Tomcat 6 on Ubuntu 7.10. I followed the instructions detailed here:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux...t-6-on-ubuntu/

The start up page for Tomcat displays fine and I can log into Tomcat Manager fine.

However, when I added a new directory inside ROOT and saved a HTML file in it, I tried to load the page , but I got a 404 status error with the following message:

The requested resource (/test/hello.html) is not available.

Does anybody have any idea what may be causing this problem? I would be grateful for any pointers on this as i am new to linux

weisso5 · 02-21-2008, 01:29 PM

Have you checked the permissions of the folder or the file?

1. cd to the directory
2. ls -l
3. This will display permissions along with owner/user.

Files owned by root, and user is root, won't be able to be opened by tomcat.

-weisso

edwarrj1 · 02-21-2008, 01:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by weisso5

Have you checked the permissions of the folder or the file?

1. cd to the directory
2. ls -l
3. This will display permissions along with owner/user.

Files owned by root, and user is root, won't be able to be opened by tomcat.

-weisso

Many thanks for your help weisso.

I have checked and the files are owned by and used by root on my machine. I am a little puzzled though as the index.jsp file in the ROOT directory has the same permissions and user/owner settings and this file can be viewed fine.

Do you think I need to make changes to the permissions?

Thank you again for your help.

Rob

weisso5 · 02-21-2008, 01:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by weisso5

Files owned by root, and user is root, won't be able to be opened by tomcat.

Yes please change the file permissions and report back.

edwarrj1 · 02-21-2008, 02:17 PM

Many thanks Weisso. I changed the permissions on one of the files and it works fine now.

Many thanks for you help.

Rob