Don't use Solaris tar to unpack GNU software. GNU software requires GNU tar. GNU tar and Solaris tar are incompatible.
Tomcat is a Java application. A binary Java application is a binary for ALL operating systems, there are no distinctions.
Did you download and install the JDK?
The easiest way to get Tomcat running on Solaris is:
1. download and install the JDK
2. set JAVA_HOME to the location of the JDK from step #1
3. download the Tomcat binary
4. unpack it to /usr/local
5. set CATALINA_HOME to location of Tomcat (something like /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.27 or /usr/local/tomcat if you're clever and used ln to link /usr/local/tomcat to /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.27)
6. execute $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
7. view http://localhost:8080
John
Jim Chase wrote:
Solaris 9 has Apache and Tomcat loaded by default. I got Apache running but Tomcat needed more work. So I tried to download it from Jakarta at:
http://apache.oregonstate.edu/jakarta/tomcat-4/binaries/
I gunzipped it and un-tarred it. Then I did what it said to do in the docs...
* Unpack the binary distribution into a convenient location so that the distribution resides in its own directory (conventionally named "jakarta-tomcat-4.0"). For the purposes of the remainder of this document, the symbolic name "${catalina.home}" is used to refer to the full pathname of the release directory.
(2) Start Up Tomcat 4.0
There are two techniques by which Tomcat 4.0 can be started:
* Via an environment variable: - Set an environment variable CATALINA_HOME to the path of the directory into which you have installed Tomcat 4.0. - Execute the shell command:
%CATALINA_HOME%\bin\startup (Windows)
$CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh (Unix)
* By modifying your current working directory: - Execute the following shell commands:
cd %CATALINA_HOME%\bin (Windows) startup (Windows)
cd $CATALINA_HOME/bin (Unix) ./startup.sh (Unix)
NOW - It won't run. I'm not even sure it was a Solaris Binary.
This is what I get in the catalina.out file:
$ cat catalina.out Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/catalina/startup/Bootstrap
Whats the easiest way to get Tomcat running with
Apache on Solaris 9?
Thanks!
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