suse could not connect to port 8080:tomcat

[vidhubalas]

hi,
We are using suse linux server. Ive installed tomcat in /usr/local. When i tried to open the home page of tomcat http://localhost:8080/ suse reports an error message could not connect to port 8080. Whats wrong with this. We are facing this problem for past 1 year. The same tomcat works fine with red hat
thanks
Vidhubala sridhar

[zsugiart]

This is an obvious question, you have placed your tomcat in /usr/bin, but have you run it? Pls look in Tomcat's readme, I'm sure it will have info on this.

Last I run tomcat was last year, so not sure if this is still accurate. From my (poor) memory, you need to:

1. set CATALINA_HOME env variable to point to your tomcat installation dir. so it'll be something like

export CATALINA_HOME=/usr/bin/tomcat/5.5

2. to run it, you run a startup .sh script in the $CATALINA_HOME/bin directory, I think it's called catalina.sh

open the script and it should be obvious what param it is expecting. Again, from memory it is something like

catalina.sh start. (could also be catalina.sh run). Have a look at the tomcat documentation, tomcat is very straightforward, I don't think it is SuSe's fault if it didn't run. Unless the SuSe gurus here could give a different reasons for it.