Hi, Try installing it from the normal distribution at jakarta.apache.org, not an RPM or another package specific to your system. The normal distro installation is simple: download and unzip to a directory of your choice. It doesn't created any new users or groups and doesn't require special permissions setup.
Yoav Shapira Millennium Research Informatics >-----Original Message----- >From: Michael Labhard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 12:58 PM >To: Tomcat Users List >Subject: Re: n00b cannot get jar files to work. > >Thank you for the reply. > >I assume that you meant the opposite when you wrote, "There's no reason it >should work in a jar," and it SHOULD work in a jar. > >When tomcat was installed it inserted a user and a group both named >"tomcat" >on my machine (I'm using Gentoo Linux 2.6.4). However, I changed the >permissions to the jar file to my own permissions and group "users" but >that >did not help. Anything else I can investigate? I'm really stuck and have >been working for days on just this one problem of getting Tomcat to see >classes in jar files. Any help would be much appreciated. > >-- Michael > >On Thursday 27 May 2004 09:48 am, Shapira, Yoav wrote: >> Hi, >> The class itself and web.xml look fine (though we usually tell people to >> put servlet-name before url-pattern in the servlet-mapping element, for >> backwards compatibility and/or historical reasons). There's no reason >> it should work in a jar. Webapps/test/WEB-INF/lib is the right place to >> put that jar. What are tomcat:tomcat permissions? The permissions >> should be such that the server user can read the jar. >> >> Yoav Shapira >> Millennium Research Informatics >> >> >-----Original Message----- >> >From: Michael Labhard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 12:39 PM >> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >Subject: n00b cannot get jar files to work. >> > >> >How do I get jar files to work? >> > >> >Learning Tomcat I have a simple "HelloServlet" class. When compiled >> >> and >> >> >the >> >class file is inserted into the directory >> > >> > /opt/tomcat/webapps/test/WEB-INF/classes/example >> > >> >and the web.xml file given below is placed in >> > >> > /opt/tomcat/webapps/test/WEB-INF/ >> > >> >and tomcat is restarted then the url >> > >> >http://localhost:8080/test/hello >> > >> >page reads: >> > >> > Hello, world! >> > >> >But if the same class is placed in a jar file and this jar file is >> >> inserted >> >> >into any of the following directories and given permissions >> >> tomcat:tomcat >> >> > /opt/tomcat/webapps/test/WEB-INF/lib >> > /opt/tomcat/common/lib >> > /opt/tomcat/shared/lib >> > >> >when tomcat is restarted and the same url is addressed first there is >> > >> > < Blank page > >> > >> >the second time the page is refreshed there is >> > >> > Status 500: >> > javax.servlet.ServletException: Wrapper cannot find servlet >> >> class >> >> > example.HelloServlet or a class it depends on >> > >> >and the third and all subsequent times the page is refreshed there is >> > >> > Status 400: >> > Servlet hello is not available >> > >> >How do I get jar files to work? Thank you. >> > >> >-- Michael >> > >> >Appendix: >> > >> >web.xml file: >> > >> ><?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> >> > >> ><web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"; >> > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; >> > xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee >> >http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"; >> > version="2.4"> >> > <servlet> >> > <servlet-name>hello</servlet-name> >> > <servlet-class>example.HelloServlet</servlet-class> >> > </servlet> >> > >> > <servlet-mapping> >> > <url-pattern>/hello</url-pattern> >> > <servlet-name>hello</servlet-name> >> > </servlet-mapping> >> ></web-app> >> > >> > >> >HelloServlet.java: >> > >> >package example; >> > >> >import java.io.*; >> >import java.util.*; >> > >> >import javax.servlet.http.*; >> >import javax.servlet.*; >> > >> >public class HelloServlet extends HttpServlet { >> > public void doGet ( >> > HttpServletRequest req, >> > HttpServletResponse res >> > ) throws ServletException, IOException >> > { >> > res.setContentType("text/html"); >> > PrintWriter pw = res.getWriter(); >> > >> > pw.println("<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 >> >Transitional//EN\">"); >> > pw.println(); >> > pw.println("<head>"); >> > pw.println("<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; >> >charset=ISO-8859-1\">"); >> > pw.println(); >> > pw.println("<!-- The Servlet expression tags interpolate script >> >variables >> >into the HTML -->"); >> > pw.println(); >> > pw.println("<title>Hello, world!</title>"); >> > pw.println("</head>"); >> > pw.println(); >> > pw.println("<body bgcolor=white>"); >> > pw.println(); >> > pw.println("<h1>Hello, world!</h1>"); >> > pw.println(); >> > pw.println("</body>"); >> > pw.close(); >> > } >> > >> > public HelloServlet() {} >> >} >> > >> > >> >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business >> communication, and may contain information that is confidential, >> proprietary and/or privileged. 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