Tomcat 5.5, Windows XP install/config

[Jerry Bustamente]

Greetings Members,

I would greatly appreciate your help on this. I get the following error when trying to start Tomcat:

"The connection was refused when attempting to contact localhost:8080"

I am trying to install Tomcat 5.5 on my laptop (Dell Espiron XPS. After installation when I try to start Tomcat from the command prompt I get several messages (below) and nothing else. When I do a ctrl/alt/delete I do not see Tomcat running as a process. FYI - I am using the Mozilla browser. Funny thing is I did have it working before but after many many attempts I cannot remember what I changed to make it fail (knucklead me).

If it helps I am trying to work through the Head First Servlets & JSP book by Bryan Bashan, Katch Sierra & Bert Bates (which enabled me to pass the SCJP exam with the Bates and Sierra book - thanks). In the Head First book I am working on pages 72-77 and am stuck on page 76.

For what it is worth I am able to click on the form.html page and sucessfully bring it up in Mozilla.

I know I need to verify that 8080 is not already in use but do not know how.

Here is the messages from the command line attempt at starting Tomcat:

C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.5\bin>tomcat5.exe
Jan 10, 2005 7:18:41 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Jan 10, 2005 7:18:41 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 719 ms
Jan 10, 2005 7:18:41 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
Jan 10, 2005 7:18:41 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.4
Jan 10, 2005 7:18:41 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
Jan 10, 2005 7:18:41 AM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: org.apache.webapp.balancer.BalancerFilter: init(): ruleChain:
[org.apache.
webapp.balancer.RuleChain:
[org.apache.webapp.balancer.rules.URLStringMatchRule:
Target string: News / Redirect URL: http://www.cnn.com],
[org.apache.webapp.bal
ancer.rules.RequestParameterRule: Target param name: paramName / Target
param va
lue: paramValue / Redirect URL: http://www.yahoo.com],
[org.apache.webapp.balanc
er.rules.AcceptEverythingRule: Redirect URL: http://jakarta.apache.org]]
Jan 10, 2005 7:18:41 AM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: ContextListener: contextInitialized()
Jan 10, 2005 7:18:41 AM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: SessionListener: contextInitialized()
Jan 10, 2005 7:18:42 AM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: ContextListener: contextInitialized()
Jan 10, 2005 7:18:42 AM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: SessionListener: contextInitialized()
Jan 10, 2005 7:18:42 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Jan 10, 2005 7:18:42 AM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK2: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
Jan 10, 2005 7:18:42 AM org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/15 config=null
Jan 10, 2005 7:18:42 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 1281 ms


Thank you so much for any help you have time to give me.

Sincerely,

Jerry Bustamente

[Nitish Bahadur]

Is there a startup.bat file in $tomcat-home/bin directory? Did you set your $JAVA_HOME variable? Try using the bat file instead of the exe, because it might set some more environment variables.

[I do not have Tomcat 5.5 installed, but actively use Tomcat 5.028 with JDK 1.42]

[Jerry Bustamente]

Nitish,

Thank you very much for your reply. I will try the things you suggest.

Sincerely,

Jerry Bustamente

[Joyce Lee]

Hi Jerry,

I know I need to verify that 8080 is not already in use but do not know how.
To check what ports are running, use "nestat -na" at a command line prompt.

[Stephen Galbraith]

Hi, I have the same setup and it works fine.

Problems I had
(1) tomcat 5.5 required java 1.5
(2) initially I didn't set JAVA_HOME
(2) JAVA_HOME path cannot cope with spaces in the path to the jvm, so make sure it is installed/copied somewhere without spaces.

Steve

[Jerry Bustamente]

Thank you Joyce, Stephen and Nitish for responding to my post - I now have it working thanks to you.

Sincerely,

Jerry Bustamente