Tomcat not working on Ubuntu

leupi · 05-17-2008, 02:02 PM

I installed Tomcat 6 and J2SE and on Ubuntu 8.04 according to these instructions. When I try to go to http://localhost:8080 I get an error loading page.

I have this in /etc/environment:

Code:

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games"
CLASSPATH=.:/usr/lib/Java6u1/bin
JRE_HOME=/usr/lib/Java6u1

and this in ~/.bashrc

Code:

export JRE_HOME=/usr/lib/Java6u1
export PATH=$PATH:$JRE_HOME/bin

(among other things)

I have tried using JAVA_HOME and JRE_HOME but nothing seems to be working. Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Todd

knudfl · 05-17-2008, 04:29 PM

If you have any "ubuntu-java" installed, it might be first in your path (/usr/bin)
So it's a good idea to remove all gcj, gij, libgcj*, java-common, usually up to 10 packages.
The 'gij - java' is known not to work with several applications.

leupi · 05-17-2008, 04:40 PM

I believe that the Java package that I did install was j2sdk1.4.2_17. Is that an appropriate package? Would I uninstall the other Java packages and just leave that one?

Thanks,
Todd

knudfl · 05-17-2008, 05:00 PM

Probably a good idea to go for the java working best with Tomcat.
You can have 2 different java, but only one in the regular path, AFAIK.
(In my ubuntu 7.10 gcj etc. was there after installing the distro, so better check it)