Thanks for the reply folks, I had a look over the site linked setup my host as such </Host>
<Host name="server" appBase="/home/server1/webapps/" autoDeploy="true" deployXML="true" unpackWARs="true" > <Alias>server</Alias> </Host> now when I go the web address I get *type* Status report *message* */* *description* *The requested resource (/) is not available.* Next thing to look at? * * again thanks for the help folks* *