Hello everybody.

I am a linux newbie, nevertheless i was asked to setup a

Linux server (Debian Sarge) with J2sdk 1.4.x, Apache-Ant

1.6.5, Tomcat 5.5.x and mySql 4.1.

Until now i've done the following:

1) I installed j2sdk under /usr/local/java

2) I extracted the ant.xxx.tar.gz in /usr/local/ant

3) I extracted the tomcat.xxx.tar.gz in /usr/local/tomcat

Is that ok or must i do something else??If it is ok,

what changes must i do in the /etc/profile or in the

PATH variable?? Must i change any configurarion files in

order for the aforementioned to work properly??(Except

mysql)

Thanx in advance and sorry for the big post!!

I would recommend adding the following environment variables to the profile of the user who is going to be running Java and Ant:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java
export ANT_HOME=/usr/local/ant
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$ANT_HOME/bin:$PATH

To test that this works run this command from a shell where these evironment variables have been set:

java -version
ant -version

These should both output version information for the installed JDK and Ant.

Now if you go to /usr/local/tomcat/bin you should be able to run ./startup.sh and then look in the file catalina.out under /usr/local/tomcat/logs to see if it starts up ok. You should then be able to open a web browser to localhost:8080 and see the tomcat welcome page.