Tomcat 6.0.16 installed, but does not display HTML or JSP files
 

Hi.

I have installed Tomcat 6 on Ubuntu 7.10. I followed the instructions detailed here:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux...t-6-on-ubuntu/

The start up page for Tomcat displays fine and I can log into Tomcat Manager fine.

However, when I added a new directory inside ROOT and saved a HTML file in it, I tried to load the page , but I got a 404 status error with the following message:

The requested resource (/test/hello.html) is not available.

Does anybody have any idea what may be causing this problem? I would be grateful for any pointers on this as i am new to linux

Have you checked the permissions of the folder or the file?

1. cd to the directory
2. ls -l
3. This will display permissions along with owner/user.

Files owned by root, and user is root, won't be able to be opened by tomcat.


-weisso

Many thanks for your help weisso.

I have checked and the files are owned by and used by root on my machine. I am a little puzzled though as the index.jsp file in the ROOT directory has the same permissions and user/owner settings and this file can be viewed fine.

Do you think I need to make changes to the permissions?

Thank you again for your help.

Rob

Yes please change the file permissions and report back.

Many thanks weisso. Problem solved
 

Many thanks Weisso. I changed the permissions on one of the files and it works fine now.

Many thanks for you help.

Rob