Re: Problems deploying a servlet on ubuntu

2011-05-01 Thread Karl Schmitt
? The ROOT webapp should be there. Put your > webapp next to it and make sure it's readable by the tomcat6 user > account .. either by setting world readable or make sure tomcat6 is in > the group or owner permission fields. Once all that is done, restart > tomcat6: > > sud

Re: Problems deploying a servlet on ubuntu

2011-04-25 Thread Karl Schmitt
Dear Marin, thanks for your reply :-) please verify is one of those environment variable pointing to the wrong place? karl@sonoma:~$ sudo -s [sudo] password for karl: root@sonoma:~# echo $JAVA_HOME /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk root@sonoma:~# echo $CATALINA_HOME /usr/share/tomcat6 root@sonoma:

Re: Problems deploying a servlet on ubuntu

2011-04-24 Thread Karl Schmitt
Thanks Andre, for answering my call for help, I tried to answer you questions as best as I could below: Tomcat was installed using the synaptic packet management I just ticked tomcat6 and hit the apply button, and tomcat and all its dependencies were installed and http://locaclhost:8080 started t

Problems deploying a servlet on ubuntu

2011-04-23 Thread Karl Schmitt
Dear Folks, I am a newbee to Servlets and I working myself thought the Head First Servlet Book. There is a simple example of a hello world servlet and a web.xml file deployed under the webapps folder, I did exactly as described in the book however I do get a 404, even though the localhost:8080 wor