Trying to install Tomcat6

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Hi everyone,

 

I haven't used RH in a while.  The last few years I have been using debian and gentoo.  Now that I want to come back to RH, I see that much has changed.  So, I am in the process of evaluating RH Enterprise v6.

 

I am trying to install tomcat6, using yum (I try to stick with the distro packages when and where possible).

 

I did this:

yum install tomcat*

 

and it installed these packages:

tomcat6-el-2.1-api-6.0.24-36.el6_2.noarch
tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api-6.0.24-36.el6_2.noarch
tomcatjss-2.1.0-2.el6.noarch
tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api-6.0.24-36.el6_2.noarch
tomcat6-6.0.24-36.el6_2.noarch
tomcat6-lib-6.0.24-36.el6_2.noarch
 

I have these java packages installed:

java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0-29.1.el6.x86_64
tzdata-java-2012b-3.el6.noarch
java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.43.1.10.6.el6_2.x86_64
java_cup-0.10k-5.el6.x86_64
 

And my alternatives:

*+ 1           /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/java
   2           /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-gcj/bin/java
 

 

I start the service like so:  /etc/init.d/tomcat6 start

No complaints.

 

I do a netstat:

tcp        0      0 :::8080                     :::*                        LISTEN      9629/java

(an nmap from another machine on the network also shows port 8080 open)

 

I have shutdown my firewall (for testing purposes)

 

So it looks like everything is on beam, but whenever I point my browser to it I get a blank screen (firefox), a file not found error (konqueror) and a invalid address error (Opera).  From the localhost, I am using http://localhost:8080 or http://127.0.0.1:8080, and the IP address from another computer on the network.  Clearly it is not working.

 

There are no errors in the catalina log files.

 

This has always been a simple affair, but I've blown several hours now trying to figure out what has gone wrong.  I cannot find any recent documentation on how to install this (using distro packages).  All I could find from RH was for Enterprise v4, and the documentation I found for centOS and other distros haven't helped.

 

Can someone please clue me in?

 

Thank you.

 

G

gr

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