Tomcat is now working for me. Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. It turned out to be the firewall as Doug suggested. When I turned off Norton Firewall it worked straight away. I don't understand why a firewall would affect it though, when its not trying to access the internet, but perhaps thats too far off topic. Thanks again, Dave
----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Parsons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 4:25 PM Subject: Re: newbie help please, localhost not found > You may want to go even more basic than that. Open a command prompt and try > pinging localhost and then try 127.0.0.1 Unless you are running some type > of firewall you should get a response. If not, do you have a personal > firewall enabled? > > No you don't have to be connected to a lan, but the TCP/IP stack must be > running. The above test will help you determine that. > > If the ping fails you can contact me off list for more help. > > I know this veered off topic, but often it is the little things that get ya. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jan Behrens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 11:00 AM > Subject: RE: newbie help please, localhost not found > > > > Hi there, > > > > have you tried http://127.0.0.1:8080 instead? That is the IP usually bound > > to localhost and it might be that localhost is not resolved correctly to > > same. If not, try to provide further info. For example, have you installed > > Tomcat in a path containing spaces such as c:\Program Files\Tomcat. If so, > > reinstall to a path without spaces. > > > > Cheers, Jan > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: D. Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 4:56 PM > > > To: Tomcat Users List > > > Subject: newbie help please, localhost not found > > > > > > > > > When I type http://localhost:8080 in Internet Explorer it says "The page > > > cannot be displayed". > > > I've looked through the archives but couldn't find anything. > > > The running.txt file that comes with Tomcat lists only 3 possibilites > for > > > why it doesn't work. > > > I've tried changing the port number, I'm using Windows XP so the > > > environment > > > issue doesn't apply > > > and I'm pretty sure that I'm not behind a proxy as I am using my own PC > at > > > home. > > > I'm pretty sure the JDK is installed ok as I can run javac. I > > > tried changing > > > JAVA_HOME and CATALINA_HOME to > > > incorrect values and that made things worse so I'm sure they are set > > > correctly. > > > I've tried 2 versions of Tomcat 4.0.1 and 4.1.29. > > > When I startup 4.0.1 I get the messages > > > " > > > Starting service Tomcat-Standalone > > > Apache Tomcat/4.0.1 > > > Starting service Tomcat-Apache > > > Apache Tomcat/4.0.1 > > > " > > > which are correct according to my book. > > > Can anyone say what the problem is, or any ways to debug it? > > > > > > It should run on a standalone home PC shouldn't it? I don't need to be > > > connected to a LAN or anything do I? > > > > > > I've been trying to solve this for 2 weeks now so I would really > > > appreciate > > > any help please. > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
