So much for the long-winded question. I was quite frustrated after two days of fiddling. I uninstalled everything, removed a commented out section in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf that I had been working on 6 months ago when I tried to install tomcat by hand, and lo and behold it worked.
When the tomcat pkg is installed the script searches the httpd.conf for a comment line with the word Tomcat. If it already exists, the httpd.conf file is not updated so as to avoid reinserting the configuration updates and leaving duplicate entries. My old comments to myself caused the installer to skip updating the httpd.conf file. This time around I got a clean install, the httpd.conf was updated, and the server threads were all running nicely when the install completed. I put the test.war application in my main directory, restarted and the jsp files seem to be working. I also verified that the security update is working just fine for the WEB-INF and META-INF directories. Thanks for the help and sorry for the pointless messages on the email list. Now let's hope tomorrow I can get my test servlet working! jay --------------------------------------------------- DuoMark International, Inc. 6523 Colgate Avenue, Suite 325 Los Angeles, CA 90048-4410 / USA Voice: +1 323 381-0002 FAX: +1 323 549 0172 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.duomark.com/ _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
