-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Installing from source is not my preferred method for anything production. I actually have a stronger and far more complicated opinion on this but this is neither the time nor place for it. In the context of your question/situation, the short short version is: Just say no to apache/tomcat source installs :)
Anyway, as to the original question, I recently installed tomcat on my dapper devel server: sudo aptitude install tomcat5 tomcat5-admin tomcat5-webapps A few minutes later it was up and running. It should be noted that I already had java working (j2sdk1.5-sun) for a different java app (http://ninan.org). Quite likely java will be the most difficult part of the install. Have your friend browse to: http://server:8180/tomcat-docs/ Replace server with the hostname or ip of the tomcat server, or localhost if you are directly logged on to that machine. There is a ton here to read which will more than likely be of use. The tomcat5-webapps package installs documentation and sample apps. So I guess if I were to actually answer your question, I would recommend Ubuntu Dapper (or whatever the current LTS version is) for tomcat devel. Actually I quite like it for servers in general. Cheers, PS - I used to like doing prototyping on Slackware, but long term maintenance and support is a major PITA, especially if the number of servers creeps into the double digits. Jesse Kline wrote: > Does anyone know of a distro. that has Tomcat working out of the box? > It's a pain to setup under Debian. > > Thanks, > > Jesse > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGXOe0wRXgH3rKGfMRAmZRAJ9xrdRyM8O6EHb55hjk/L5rSrmDCgCdH6w7 k7ZYjXhG1MsyQvhnFd0kBxo= =3gRA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
