afternoon all, (in the uk at least)
having a few issues with Tomcat 4.0 installation and running...

ok, I installed the j2sdk, installed Tomcat 4.0 ok, set the environment variables, JAVA_HOME, CATALINA_HOME etc. The tomcat 4 service starts fine at boot time as set in the services configurator gui, but there are two issues that I think are closely related:

1) when I point my browser to http://localhost:8080 then the connection is refused

2) when I stop tomcat 4 through the service configurator the app throws this Exception:

tomcat4 failed. The error was: Stopping tomcat4: Using CATALINA_BASE: /var/tomcat4
Using CATALINA_HOME: /var/tomcat4
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /var/tomcat4/temp
Using JAVA_HOME: /usr/local/java/j2sdk1.4.1_01
Catalina.stop: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:305)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:171)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:158)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:426)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:376)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:291)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:119)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.stop(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Unknown Source)
[FAILED]


anyone have any ideas?

cheers
Simon

I checked the log file to see if there were any error messages relating to boot /start up and sure enough when it thinks it has started successfully in fact there was an exception :

10-Dec-2002 14:52:03 org.apache.commons.modeler.Registry loadRegistry
INFO: Loading registry information
10-Dec-2002 14:52:04 org.apache.commons.modeler.Registry getRegistry
INFO: Creating new Registry instance
10-Dec-2002 14:52:04 org.apache.commons.modeler.Registry getServer
INFO: Creating MBeanServer
10-Dec-2002 14:52:06 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on port 8080
Starting service Tomcat-Standalone
Apache Tomcat/4.1
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Document base /var/tomcat4/webapps/examples does not exist or is not a readable directory
at org.apache.naming.resources.FileDirContext.setDocBase(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Unknown Source)

which sure enough I check the permissions to Document base /var/tomcat4/webapps/examples the folder examples does not exist and the permissions are not set for the dirs above. I solved the permissions by chmod 777 for the folders but still have no examples dir and really haven't a clue what to do next.. suggestions anyone?

cheers

Simon

as far as i know the examples should come with the normal distribution of tomcat. no extra files to download. maybe get yourself a new download. how did u build it? ant? binaries? have there been warnings or failures building it?
cheers, jens

Well, my tomcat is working ok- at least with the sample apps.

However I get the above error when shutting it down. Anyone have any idea whats is going on, and how to prevent the error?

Thanks