Thanks Mark. I had previously installed tomcat6. I unistalled it using command: sudo apt-get remove --purge tomcat6. But still when i browse: http://localhost:8080/ it displays tomcat 6 welcome page. I installed tomcat 7 as you explained but tomcat6 welcome page displays. Why is it so ?
Regards, Anisha On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Mark Eggers <its_toas...@yahoo.com> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroe...@gmail.com> > > To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org> > > Cc: > > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 1:34 PM > > Subject: Re: problem configuring tomcat7 in ubuntu 10.04 > > > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Anisha Karki <karki.ani...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> I read that but its not clear on how to manage directories in ubuntu > i.e > >> Where should tomcat be placed ? > > > > Anywhere you want -- it's your server. > > > >> and what is the command to run the tomcat server ? > > > > Excerpted quote from the documentation: > > "the full distribution (ZIP file or tarball) includes a file called > > RUNNING.txt" > > which is about exactly that... > > > > FWIW, > > > This really depends on what you want to accomplish. From your original mail > message, I'm guessing that you might want to learn about running Tomcat and > writing Java web applications on Ubuntu. > > If that's your goal, then I find the easiest way to do things (on Fedora > Linux at any rate) is the following: > > 1. Grab the latest version (currently 7.0.21) from tomcat.apache.org > > 2. Untar it in a directory controlled by your user > > I normally create a directory called Apache or Servers in my home > directory, and then place all of my servers underneath that. I can then > organize multiple versions, clusters, virtual hosts, etc. without making too > much of a mess. > > Now you can read RUNNING.txt in the directory where you unpacked the Tomcat > distribution. However, to get you started . . . . > > 3. Set $JRE_HOME to point to your Java JRE installation > > 4. Switch to $CATALINA_HOME/bin and type ./startup.sh > > $CATALINA_HOME is where you unpacked the distribution in step 2 above. > > 5. Open a browser to http://localhost:8080 > > You should see the Tomcat welcome page at this point. > > Before you can implement new web applications, you'll probably find it > easier to set up the management application. Read the documentation on your > running Tomcat on how to do that. The URL for that would be: > > http://localhost:8080/docs/manager-howto.html > > > The link is on the welcome page of your running Tomcat. > > 6. When you're done, stop Tomcat with $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh > > In the above, I'm assuming you're using the command line to maneuver around > Ubuntu. I suppose you can accomplish the same via the GUI, but I have no > idea how the new Unity interface works. > > Setting up Tomcat in a directory you control solves a lot of potential > permissions problems. It's easier to edit > $CATALINA_HOME/conf/tomcat-users.xml without having to sudo every time. It's > also easier to start/stop Tomcat and integrate it with an IDE if the > installation is in a directory you control. > > You'll find out that Linux permissions are quite a bit different than > Windows permissions. It's best not to go cluttering up your system with user > files (or relaxing permissions in system directories) until you become more > comfortable with the way Linux works. > > Hopefully that will be enough to get you started. Next up, looking at > version control (rcs for simple Tomcat configuration files, git or svn for > projects), and an IDE (NetBeans or Eclipse) is probably in order. > > After that, you can look at running a different copy of Tomcat as a > service, and integrating it with Apache HTTPD. > > . . . . just my two cents. > /mde/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
