CentOS - Mar 2010 - Tomcat 5.23 help - http://hostname:8080 is an empty page.

I installed tomcat 5.23 from the yum install of centos5.3 and have started
tomcat on port 8080 . The http://hostname:8080 shows a blank page. In a
standard Tomcat distribution, the default application is located in the ROOT
directory /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps: From centos installation, this directory
is empty. Please help us to bring up the apache-tomcat installation page.

tomcat5.conf has the following settings
CATALINA_HOME="/usr/share/tomcat5"
JASPER_HOME="/usr/share/tomcat5"
CATALINA_TMPDIR="/usr/share/tomcat5/temp"
JAVA_ENDORSED_DIRS="/usr/share/tomcat5/common/endorsed"

I see the following in /usr/share/tomcat5 after installtion. Why is webapps
folder empty?
drwxr-xr-x 2 tomcat root 4096 Mar 10 09:27 bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root   23 Mar 10 09:27 common -> /var/lib/tomcat5/common
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root   12 Mar 10 09:27 conf -> /etc/tomcat5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root   16 Mar 10 09:27 logs -> /var/log/tomcat5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root   23 Mar 10 09:27 server -> /var/lib/tomcat5/server
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root   23 Mar 10 09:27 shared -> /var/lib/tomcat5/shared
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root   23 Mar 10 09:27 temp -> /var/cache/tomcat5/temp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root   24 Mar 10 09:27 webapps ->
/var/lib/tomcat5/webapps
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root   23 Mar 10 09:27 work -> /var/cache/tomcat5/work
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you should install the webapp package as well it comes separately if i
remember correctly.

2010/3/15 testwreq wreq <testwreq at gmail.com>
> I installed tomcat 5.23 from the yum install of centos5.3 and have started
> tomcat on port 8080 . The http://hostname:8080 shows a blank page. In a
> standard Tomcat distribution, the default application is located in the
ROOT
> directory /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps: From centos installation, this
directory
> is empty. Please help us to bring up the apache-tomcat installation page.
>
> tomcat5.conf has the following settings
> CATALINA_HOME="/usr/share/tomcat5"
> JASPER_HOME="/usr/share/tomcat5"
> CATALINA_TMPDIR="/usr/share/tomcat5/temp"
> JAVA_ENDORSED_DIRS="/usr/share/tomcat5/common/endorsed"
>
> I see the following in /usr/share/tomcat5 after installtion. Why is webapps
> folder empty?
> drwxr-xr-x 2 tomcat root 4096 Mar 10 09:27 bin
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root   23 Mar 10 09:27 common ->
> /var/lib/tomcat5/common
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root   12 Mar 10 09:27 conf -> /etc/tomcat5
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root   16 Mar 10 09:27 logs -> /var/log/tomcat5
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root   23 Mar 10 09:27 server ->
> /var/lib/tomcat5/server
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root   23 Mar 10 09:27 shared ->
> /var/lib/tomcat5/shared
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root   23 Mar 10 09:27 temp ->
/var/cache/tomcat5/temp
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root   24 Mar 10 09:27 webapps ->
> /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat root   23 Mar 10 09:27 work ->
/var/cache/tomcat5/work
>
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On 3/15/2010 10:30 AM, testwreq wreq wrote:
> I installed tomcat 5.23 from the yum install of centos5.3 and have
> started tomcat on port 8080 . The http://hostname:8080 shows a blank
> page. In a standard Tomcat distribution, the default application is
> located in the ROOT directory /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps: From centos
> installation, this directory is empty. Please help us to bring up the
> apache-tomcat installation page.
> tomcat5.conf has the following settings
> CATALINA_HOME="/usr/share/tomcat5"
> JASPER_HOME="/usr/share/tomcat5"
> CATALINA_TMPDIR="/usr/share/tomcat5/temp"
> JAVA_ENDORSED_DIRS="/usr/share/tomcat5/common/endorsed"
> I see the following in /usr/share/tomcat5 after installtion. Why is
> webapps folder empty?

Do a 'yum search tomcat5' to see the available packages and install any 
that are missing.  tomcat5-webapps and tomcat5-admin-webapps are 
separate packages.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com