Hi All,

I recently installed TomCat apache-tomcat-5.5.20 and jre-6-windows-i586.exe as required. I also set up the following environment variables:

Path=... C:\java\j2sdk1.4.2_06\bin
JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\j2sdk1.4.2_06


Then, I started the Tomcat as shown below:
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C:\Program Files\apache-tomcat-5.5.20\bin>shutdown.bat
Using CATALINA_BASE: C:\Program Files\apache-tomcat-5.5.20
Using CATALINA_HOME: C:\Program Files\apache-tomcat-5.5.20
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: C:\Program Files\apache-tomcat-5.5.20\temp
Using JRE_HOME: C:\Program Files\Java\j2sdk1.4.2_06
This release of Apache Tomcat was packaged to run on J2SE 5.0
or later. It can be run on earlier JVMs by downloading and
installing a compatibility package from the Apache Tomcat
binary download page.
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So, I tried to access the following:
http://<my_computer_name>:8080/

Unfortunately, I got "The page cannot be displayed". Is there anything else that I should configure? By the way, i followed the instrauction below on on how to start up the tomcat taken from RUNNING.txt. Anyhelp would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance...

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$Id: RUNNING.txt 354430 2005-12-06 13:44:26Z yoavs $

============================================
Running The Tomcat 5.5 Servlet/JSP Container
============================================

Out of the box, Tomcat 5.5 requires the Java 2 Standard Edition Runtime
Environment (JRE) version 5.0 or later. However, you can also run Tomcat
5.5 on earlier versions of the JRE, as detailed below.

=============================
Running With JRE 5.0 Or Later
=============================

(1) Download and Install the J2SE Runtime Environment (JRE)

(1.1) Download the Java 2 Standard Edition Runtime Environment (JRE),
release version 5.0 or later, from http://java.sun.com/j2se.

(1.2) Install the JRE according to the instructions included with the
release.

(1.3) Set an environment variable named JAVA_HOME to the pathname of
the directory into which you installed the JRE, e.g. c:\j2sdk5.0
or /usr/local/java/j2sdk5.0.


(2) Download and Install the Tomcat Binary Distribution

NOTE: As an alternative to downloading a binary distribution, you can create
your own from the Tomcat source repository, as described in "BUILDING.txt".
If you do this, the value to use for "${catalina.home}" will be the "dist"
subdirectory of your source distribution.

(2.1) Download a binary distribution of Tomcat from:

http://tomcat.apache.org

(2.2) Unpack the binary distribution into a convenient location so that the
distribution resides in its own directory (conventionally named
"apache-tomcat-[version]"). For the purposes of the remainder of this document,
the symbolic name "$CATALINA_HOME" is used to refer to the full
pathname of the release directory.


(3) Start Up Tomcat

(3.1) Tomcat can be started by executing the following commands:

$CATALINA_HOME\bin\startup.bat (Windows)

$CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh (Unix)

(3.2) After startup, the default web applications included with Tomcat will be
available by visiting:

http://localhost:8080/

(3.3) Further information about configuring and running Tomcat can be found in
the documentation included here, as well as on the Tomcat web site:

http://tomcat.apache.org


(4) Shut Down Tomcat

(4.1) Tomcat can be shut down by executing the following command:

$CATALINA_HOME\bin\shutdown (Windows)

$CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh (Unix)



====================================
Running Tomcat With J2SE Version 1.4
====================================

(1) Obtain the compat package:

(1.1) Download the compat package from the binary download site:
http://tomcat.apache.org

* Or build this package yourself from the source code: see
"BUILDING.txt" in this directory.

(2) Unzip the package in $CATALINA_HOME. It will place the XML
parser APIs and Xerces implementation in the common/endorsed
directory, and the JMX API jar (jmx.jar from Sun) in the bin
directory.

(3) Follow the same directions for starting and stopping the
server as if you were using J2SE 5.0.

Running this command will stop tomcat (if it's running). So try instead.

Hi bathory,

Thanks for the reply...Of course i tried to startup the tomcat before launhing it...but it still doesnt work. Is there anything I need to configure beforehand? Thanks again for your prompt reply...

Try http://localhost:8080/

Also, you installed the JRE 6 beta but left your path and JAVA_HOME pointing to an old JRE 1.4 install. You should also either modify your path and JAVA_HOME to point to the new JRE or install the compatibility package that Tomcat mentions in its output.