I recently installed Tomcat version 5.0.14 from a binary distribution download. My system is a laptop running Redhat Linux 9 (kernel release 2.4.20-8).
I "untared" the tomcat tar-file and everything looked OK. I started the Mozilla browser and was successful in visiting http://localhost:8080 I followed the "instructions" in the sample build.xml file and was able to successfully compile my application. I wasn't able to install my application from the commandline using "ant". I was able to use the Mozilla browser and use the manager webapp to deploy the application. Why can't I us"ant" from the commandline to deploy/install my application ? It then occurred to me that the other TAR files comprising the Tomcat 5.0.14 binary distribution had something to do with my problems. I untar'ed those Tarfiles. The contents after I untared those files looks something like the structure of a Tomcat5 application; they have build.xml files, etc... But what do I do with these other 2 structures : "deployer" and "embed" ? I tried running ant to install the deployer, but with no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
