Hello

I have been trying to get tomcat up and running with no success. Recently, I installed CentOS 6.3 as a development workstation. Both java and tomcat were installed. Java is working but I tried to get tomcat to work with no sucess. I was advice to download the jar.gz of tomcat7 and I did. I used tar zxvf filename, it extracted successfully. I moved to the apache-tomcat-7.0.33 directory and then issued bin/startup.sh, it displayed the following output:

Using CATALINA_BASE : /server/apache-tomcat-7.0.33
Using CATALINA_HOME: /server/apache-tomcat-7.0.33
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /server/apache-tomcat-7.0.33/tmp
Using JRE_HOME : /usr/bin/java
CLASSPATH : /server/apache-tomcat-7.0.33/bin/bootstrap.jar:/server/apache-tomcat-7.0.33/bin/tomcat-juli.jar

I then opened firefox and typed http://localhost:8080 , I got server not foud. What am I doing wrong?

Note : while attempting to get tomcat 6 to work, which was installed with CentOS, I add export JAVA_HOME=/usr/bin/java to .bash_profile after I ran which java and it displayed /usr/bin/java

Thanks in advance

Most likely the server is not running. Check catalina.out to see what's going wrong. If you've installed tomcat under /server/apache-tomcat-7.0.33, you can run:
in a terminal, while trying to start tomcat from another one and watch the tail output for errors.

Regards

output from tail -f /server/apache-tomcat-7.0.33/logs/catalina.out is

/server/apache-tomcat-7.0.33/logs/catalina.out : line 389 : /usr/bin/java/bin/java : Not a directory

When I type bin/startup.sh in the other terminal, it displayed

/server/apache-tomcat-7.0.33/logs/catalina.sh : line 389 : /usr/bin/java/bin/java : Not a directory

I'm not familiar with Centos, but from what I've read you need to set the JAVA_HOME to one of the following
It depends on whether you've installed jre or jdk (where x.y.z is the version)

/usr/java doesn't exist. I searched inside the /usr and found what looks a candidate but it still it didn't work

/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk/bin/java

I changed JAVA_HOME to export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk, it didn't work

and to export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk/bin, it also didn't work

Does the order of PATH, CLASSPATH, and JAVA_HOME matter? I have them in the following order, PATH, CLASSPATH, and JAVA_HOME

Ah, you have openjdk. Then JAVA_HOME should be set to /usr/lib/jvm/re-1.6.0-openjdk (don't put /bin at the end)


Nope

I Guess you have not set java_home path properly.Determine java_home path in your .bashrc file.Look after the article

https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/...ring_Java.html