once the real tomcat is installed..start logging.. http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/logging.html
Martin ______________________________________________ Disclaimer and confidentiality note Everything in this e-mail and any attachments relates to the official business of Sender. This transmission is of a confidential nature and Sender does not endorse distribution to any party other than intended recipient. Sender does not necessarily endorse content contained within this transmission. > Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:09:11 +0200 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > Subject: Re: hello world > > Caldarale, Charles R wrote: > >> From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of thufir > >> Subject: Re: hello world > >> > >> If Apache installs then why not tomcat? > > > > Apache is a software organization with numerous products; if by "Apache" > > you mean httpd, it may be because the 3rd-party developers are more > > familiar with it so less likely to screw it up. For Tomcat, they seem to > > take great delight in scattering its files all over, using symlinks to try > > to link it all back up, along with highly modified startup/shutdown scripts > > that add minor niceties but break anything but basic operation. > > > > Use a real Tomcat, and see what happens. > > > > - Chuck > Hi. > I usually do not agree with Chuck on the subject of the > benefits/inconvenients of third-party Tomcat packages. > > But I must admit that, concerning Tomcat 5.x and Debian/Ubuntu, I do > agree with the comment above. The packager in that instance seems to > have a great imagination and a lot of fun scattering Tomcat all over the > place, in a way that makes it hard even to find out where to begin > unraveling the spaghetti-bowl of symlinks and directories. > > Apparently, for Tomcat5.5, it is even so that installing the basic > Tomcat5.5 package (tomcat5.5) results in a Tomcat which starts up, but > answers with a blank page and an error 400 "no Host matches servername > localhost" when you try to access it via localhost:8180 (although there > is only one <Host> in server.xml, named "localhost"). > > You need to install the additional package tomcat5.5-webapps (which > installs the webapps in some base directory different from Tomcat > itself) to start seeing something (the basic Tomcat Welcome page). > > I kind of imagine that this is because if Tomcat starts, but has > absolutely no documents or applications to serve in its document root, > it answers with that cryptic error message. > > Now rather than recriminating at aeternum, does anyone know how to track > down said packager, so that maybe he could come here and see the errors > of his ways, or at least explain his logic here ? Same as for Debian > Tomcat5.5 itself, I haven't a clue where to start. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ Want to do more with Windows Live? Learn “10 hidden secrets” from Jamie. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_domore_092008
