fresh tomcat 5.5 install not showing tomcat homepage

laggerific · 10-26-2007, 04:28 PM

I am running RHEL4 and installed tomcat 5.5 through up2date. The app appears to start just fine, I get no errors that I can see in the catalina.out log file, and I can deploy their sample.war file just fine and see hello, world and such.

The problem is that when I just go to http://hostname:8080 I see a blank page, no errors or anything (through firefox, at least). Glancing through the docs it says that the manager has to be enabled, but even if I haven't done that yet, should I be able to see the tomcat homepage?

I have a feeling that the previous admin messed with some permissions around this dev system that might be interfering with tomcat, but I don't see any errors in the catalina.out file to indicate that. So, is this expected behavior and I need to install something else? Here is the log file as I see it:

Code:

 Oct 26, 2007 1:14:26 PM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener lifecycleEvent
INFO: The Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library
.path: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-bea-1.5.0.08/jre/lib/amd64/jrockit:/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-bea-1.5.0.08/jre/lib/amd64:/usr/lib/jvm/ja
va-1.5.0-bea-1.5.0.08/jre/../lib/amd64
Oct 26, 2007 1:14:27 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Oct 26, 2007 1:14:27 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 2690 ms
Oct 26, 2007 1:14:28 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
Oct 26, 2007 1:14:28 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.23
Oct 26, 2007 1:14:28 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
Oct 26, 2007 1:14:28 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Oct 26, 2007 1:14:28 PM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
Oct 26, 2007 1:14:28 PM org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=1/54  config=null
Oct 26, 2007 1:14:28 PM org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreLoader load
INFO: Find registry server-registry.xml at classpath resource
Oct 26, 2007 1:14:28 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start

through IE I get a "page cannot be found" error.