I got it working last night thanks to all your help; indeed not specifying the protocol in the browser address line was the problem.
Thanks
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lance Dyas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 6:42 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Tomcat + win 98
>
>
> Myself as well, it works in win98, I too had problems with
> startup.bat... the other
> difficulty involved having the right java version on the machine,
>
> Danny Angus wrote:
> >
> > it does run on win98, i have it on my laptop, but I only
> had problems with
> > startup.bat, once I cured them it was OK.
> >
> > you have to put http:// infront of addresses with port
> numbers, is that it?
> > try http://127.0.0.1:8080/ I hope it is !
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 4:57 PM
> > To: Tomcat list (E-mail)
> > Subject: Tomcat + win 98
> >
> > I take it from various other posts here that tomcat does
> indeed work with
> > Windows '98. Are there any special things outside the normal stuff
> > mentioned in the docs to get it working?
> > I've gotten Tomcat working fine on NT, but at home on my
> '98 box, it seems
> > to not be working. Everything seems to get set up properly
> according to the
> > logs, but when I hit: 127.0.0.1:8080, I get a "page not
> found" error, but
> > the title displayed in the browser (ie 5.x) says "Invalid
> Syntax Error".
> > This ring a bell with anyone?
> > Thanks
>
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