thanks everyone for the responses. Unrelated hardware issues necessitated a
reinstall, so I did a fresh install of 10.04. this time I used apt-get to
install more packages (user, admin, example, etc) and everything is working
as expected. I suspect my original problem was probably due to missing
Thank you for the reply. Do you mean the original installation of ubuntu or
tomcat? I restored the tomcat settings back to the original state, but
cannot see that an examples app is pre-installed. If it's something I need
to deploy myself, I'm not sure how to do that without access to the
The standard Tomcat package from apache.org comes with an examples app
pre-installed.
The various packagers (incl. Ubuntu) mangle Tomcat in a variety of ways.
Standard advice on this list for something like your situation seems
to be is to first
download a clean Tomcat package from
Hi.
I am not familiar with Ubuntu, but I am told it uses the same packages
as Debian Linux.
In such a case, Tomcat itself, the example apps, and/or the manager
applications, may be in 2 or 3 different packages, which you need to
each install.
Check with apt-cache search tomcat to make sure.
You might want to check the file permissions before and after you edit
it. Something about this smells like a permissions issue. I have a
Ubuntu 9.10 installed tomcat and it works perfect. Admittedly I didn't
upgrade from 8.4 but w/ editing tomcat-user.xml being the only change,
there are only
Hello all,
I had an installation of ubuntu 8.04 that I recently upgraded to 9.10. I
barely used it before the upgrade so the system was very close to a fresh
install of 8.04 before the upgrade.
I installed tomcat6 with apt-get. After setting everything up, I checked
that I could access the It
On 01/05/2010 18:19, paul geer wrote:
Hello all,
I had an installation of ubuntu 8.04 that I recently upgraded to 9.10. I
barely used it before the upgrade so the system was very close to a fresh
install of 8.04 before the upgrade.
I installed tomcat6 with apt-get. After setting
