one idea that jumps in my head after re-reading your original post is : did you configure well the entry for your app in the web.xml file?
just an idea (as you said you were looking for wild guesses ;) ) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Hardy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 1:28 PM Subject: connection refused, localhost not found > Hi Listers > I'm sceptical whether anybody else has ever suffered this bizarre > problem so I'm not expecting anybody to be able to help, but this is > seriously damaging my enjoyment of Monday morning. > > I have tomcat 5.0.14 set up on one computer and it works fine mostly, > i.e. root context, JSP examples, manager apps are working fine. > > The problem is with the app I'm developing. On Friday night last week I > did loads of debugging to sort out the JNDI connection pool, e.g. > configuring the app context, the web.xml etc. > > Now when I try to call up http://localhost:8080/myapp/ the browser zooms > off to find http://www.localhost.net.au! When I try > http://127.0.0.1:8080/myapp/ I get a 'connection refused' pop-up from > the browsers - on my machine and on others. (root context still works as > I said). > > Obviously I tried restarting tomcat, redeploying the app, taking out all > the filters, changing the context name, checked server.xml. > > Anybody care to take a wild guess about what I need to do? > > Tx > Adam > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]