I have installed Tomcat 4.1.10 on Linux 7.3. When I run "startup.sh" it starts up fine, but when I try to connect to "http://localhost:8080" it refuses my connection. I'm not sure what has gone wrong. I have successfully installed Tomcat 4.0.4 on a laptop and it works fine. I thought I may be having a problem with my DSL line buggering things up, but I'm not sure and wouldn't know how to fix it anyway.

Any suggestions?

This is most probably a firewall issue, check that you have 8080 open for localhost, otherwise you'd get connection refused error.

Thanx,
I've decided to revert back to tomcat-4.0.4....at least this still works!

If it refuses connection, means that you tomcat has not started proper. Do the following it will work :

see in /root/.bashrc the path for java is given.
in the /var/tomcat4/conf/tomcat4.conf java path is given proper
Then run the tomcat4 with "run" in the terminal mode. It will to step by step to say what it is doing and whether the startin of tomcat is proper or not like the following :

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[root@localhost root]# tomcat4 stop
Using CATALINA_BASE: /var/tomcat4
Using CATALINA_HOME: /var/tomcat4
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /var/tomcat4/temp
Using JAVA_HOME: /usr/java/jdk1.3.1_04
[root@localhost root]# tomcat4 run
Using CATALINA_BASE: /var/tomcat4
Using CATALINA_HOME: /var/tomcat4
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /var/tomcat4/temp
Using JAVA_HOME: /usr/java/jdk1.3.1_04
[INFO] Registry - -Loading registry information
[INFO] Registry - -Creating new Registry instance
[INFO] Registry - -Creating MBeanServer
[INFO] Http11Protocol - -Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on port 8081
Starting service Tomcat-Standalone
Apache Tomcat/4.1
[INFO] Http11Protocol - -Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on port 8081
[INFO] ChannelSocket - -JK2: ajp13 listening on tcp port 8019
[INFO] JkMain - -Jk running ID=0 time=2/60 config=/var/tomcat4/conf/jk2.properties



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I had the same problem, but in my case it wasn't a real problem.

Looking the logs file (catalina_YYYY-MM-DD.log) I found out that the tomcat was running in the port 8180 instead of 8080.

So, I used http://localhost:8180 and everything is now ok.