Comments on: How to setup Apache Tomcat 5.5 on Debian Etch

By: John

John — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:03:08 +0000

I just used this tutorial on the fresh installation of Lenny without problems, the only thing was to add:
grant { permission java.security.AllPermission; };
to “/etc/java-6-sun/security/java.policy”

I have no idea whether it’s the right solution, but it works

But how is it with some mods etc? Isn’t it better to use apache2 + libapache2-mod-jk instead of the built-in web server in Apache Tomcat?

By: akram

akram — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:51:47 +0000

you may need #chmod +x -R tomcat5.5/

By: zito

zito — Fri, 01 May 2009 08:12:48 +0000

very good, wonderfull, you do help me

thanks

By: Stacy

Stacy — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:00:54 +0000

Yann, I had the same problem. If you look at the catalina log file you see a logging.properties exception when tomcat is trying to load your app. The fix is described by brndnbg above.

By: Yann

Yann — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:40:38 +0000

Hi,

I just installed tomcat5.5 on debian server 40r6, with:
aptitude install sun-java5-jre
aptitude install tomcat5.5 tomcat5.5-admin tomcat5.5-webapps

It is then available from http://localhost:8180/, as well as the Tomcat Manager (http://localhost:8180/manager/html). So far, so good.

Then I create a dummy HTML file I want to see when calling http://localhost:8180/foo.html, I have to put it there:
/usr/share/tomcat5.5-webapps/ROOT/foo.html

If I put a WAR file in this directory, it is automatically expanded:
/var/lib/tomcat5.5/webapps/

BUT the problem is that:
1. it does not show up in the “Tomcat Web Application Manager” page
2. it is not reachable by http://localhost:8180/

If I deploy a WAR using the “Tomcat Web Application Manager”, it is then available in /var/lib/tomcat5.5/webapps, but not shown in the Manager page.

What’s the problem?
It seems I have 2 webapps directories, instead of one.

How can I solve that?

Thanks

By: Kasidit

Kasidit — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:13:21 +0000

Thanks very very much!

By: Kees

Kees — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:05:26 +0000

Ps. tomcat had problems with your tomcat-user.xml file. My /var/lib/tomcat5.5/conf/tomcat-users.xml looks like:

User ad can then login to both the admin and the manager part of tomcat.
See http://www.netadmintools.com/art340.html

By: Thanks

Thanks — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:24:39 +0000

I hava searched for many websites to install the tomcat to my Ubuntu8.04 before I seen your page ,but all fail ! Then I do as your says ,now ,I finally can open the page “http://localhost:8180″ ,Thank you very much ! Good luck with you ! The late success is exciting !!!!!!!!

By: pj

pj — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:23:28 +0000

Thanks,

Piece of cake with this HowTo

By: brndnbg

brndnbg — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:06:37 +0000

seems like the doubled angle brackets where interpreted as comments or something. You have to insert your webapps name between ““/var/lib/tomcat5.5/webapps/” and “/WEB-INF/classes/logging.properties”

By: brndnbg

brndnbg — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:04:28 +0000

I would like to annotate that althoug this solution works to get your admin-page, you will not be able to deploy war-archives to the server. To be able to do that, you will have to modify the file “/etc/tomcat5.5/policy.d/04webapps.policy” and find the following block:

grant codeBase “file:${catalina.home}/bin/tomcat-juli.jar” {
//some permissions here
[...]

};

then you add the followin line to the other permissions in the block and fill in your webapps name:

permission java.io.FilePermission “/var/lib/tomcat5.5/webapps/<>/WEB-INF/classes/logging.properties”, “read”;

This is a nasty task and took me quite a few hours on “grepping” through logfiles and googling. It should be done automatically by tomcat. Has anyone a better solution? I’m still a novice in this J2EE thing.

Greets.

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:32:19 +0000

Thank you for making it SUPER easy to set up my Linux server!
This page alone saved me heaps of headaches

By: Miguel

Miguel — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:20:29 +0000

Great job. It worked.

Thanx.

By: Yong

Yong — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:30:42 +0000

I followded those instructions and was able to run tomcat admin/manager (great!!!).
But when I deployed my web app, the app failed to start. The only error I can see in catalina.log is:
SEVERE: Error listenerStart

How can I get more details about what causes the failure???

Thanks!

-Yong