Re: JSP setup problems on XP Pro

From: PerfectDayToChaseTornados (pdtct_at_emailaddress.invalid)
Date: 10/12/03 

Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 11:13:25 +0100

"Henry" <greenclay@optonline.net> wrote in message
news:di3ib.82559$Ri4.27973640@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net...
| I found the problem. I made one mistake, and the system just plain didn't
| like something else. In the jakarta-tomcat-4.1.27\bin\catalina.bat I had
| set the JAVA_HOME variable, which is not necessary. I think this was, for
| me, a holdover from earlier versions of Tomcat, such as 3.2 and 3.3.
|
| I hadn't mentioned earlier that no instance of Tomcat actually ran- which
| was why I couldn't even point to the default Tomcat page at
| http://localhost:8080/.
|
| The last part of the puzzle was the port number. As soon as I changed it
to
| 7080 instead of 8080, the default page loaded in a blink of an eye.
| Changing back to 8080 again brings up the password/login dialog.
|
| I'm also running Oracle 9i, which installs JServ (optionally). I was just
| beginning to suspect something funny due to JServ.
|
| Maybe it was IIS after all. I'm not sure if I would have considered the
| port number so soon. I even have some documentation that recommends
| changing the default port as a normal course of operation; see
| http://www.moreservlets.com/Using-Tomcat-4.html for the reference.
|
| In any case, I've got things running. Thanks for your help!
|
|
| Henry
|

Glad you got it sorted out, these things can be incredibly annoying :-) 

-- 
-P

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