Tomcat fails to complete startup, not accesible on port 8080
Issue
- Tomcat does not start up correctly
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The process is listening on port 8080, but Tomcat does not respond to requests to host://localhost:8080, the browser returns "Unable to connect".
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The catalina log never shows the started message :
9-Feb-11 4:56:28 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start INFO: Server startup in 3854 ms
but instead the last message is :
26-Jan-11 11:32:23 AM org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/45 config=null
- java -version indicates an unsupported version of java, such as
java version "1.4.2"
gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-50)
Environment
- Apache Tomcat
- 5.x
- 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- 5
- 6
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