Tomcat install?

[Mike Shn]

Hello
I installed the Tomcat 3.2.4 on my computer. But it doesn't work when I go to the URL http://localhost:8080/. Do I have to install web server before installing Tomcat?
Thanks

[Dave Wingate]

What do you mean by "it doens't work"?
Can you tell us the contents of the page that is displayed when you try to go to that URL?
Also, have you "started" tomcat? By this I mean did you go to a dos prompt, cd to the bin directory of tomcat, and enter the command startup? Tomcat, as configured after installation, will not automatically run in the background. You have to tell it to do so.
[ August 27, 2002: Message edited by: Dave Winn ]

[Mike Shn]

Of course I use CMD ..I got the error message
C:\tomcat\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.4\bin>tomcat start
Unable to locate servlet.jar, check the value of TOMCAT_HOME.
C:\tomcat\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.4\bin>tomcat start
Unable to locate servlet.jar, check the value of TOMCAT_HOME.
C:\tomcat\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.4\bin>
http://www.fawcette.com/Archives/premier/mgznarch/javapro/2000/12dec00/bk0012/bk0012.asp

I also specify path see below please
SET JAVA_HOME=C:\j2sdk1.4.0_01\bin
set _CP=%CP%
set _TOMCAT_HOME=%C:\tomcat\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.4\lib%
set _CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%
Thanks

[Paul Stevens]

Moving to the APache/Tomcat forum.

[Tim Holloway]

"xxxx_HOME" should point to product home directory, not the "bin" directory. You should have something more like:

SET JAVA_HOME=C:\j2sdk1.4.0_01
SET PATH=%PATH%;%JAVA_HOME%\bin
SET TOMCAT_HOME=C:\tomcat\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.4

I don't know any uses for "_TOMCAT_HOME" or "_CLASSPATH". TOMCAT mostly does its own classpath management via designated internal directories (%TOMCAT_HOME%\lib\xxx). See the Tomcat3 docs at jakarta.apache org for details on that, and be sure you're not looking at the Tomcat 4 docs, since they have a different library directory organization.
[ August 28, 2002: Message edited by: Tim Holloway ]