I am trying to run jakarta-tomcat 5.5.

I installed jre1.5.0_03 and also jdk1.5.0_03.

I tried setting my JAVA_HOME variable to both
/usr/local/re1.5.0_03 and also /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_03
and then running the /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/bin/startup.sh
script.

# ./startup.sh
Using CATALINA_BASE: /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/
Using CATALINA_HOME: /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9//temp
Using JRE_HOME: /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_03

# ps -fela | grep -i java | grep -v grep
8 R root 9665 1 16 59 20 ? 11500 17:11:23
pts/11 0:05 /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_03/bin/java -Dj
8 R root 9510 1 0 50 20 ? 11906 16:22:41
pts/11 0:15 /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_03/bin/java -Dj

# echo $JAVA_HOME
/usr/local/jdk1.5.0_03

Here is where I set JAVA_HOME to jre:

# export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jre1.5.0_03/
# ./startup.sh
Using CATALINA_BASE: /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/
Using CATALINA_HOME: /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9//temp
Using JRE_HOME: /usr/local/jre1.5.0_03/

# ps -fela | grep -i java | grep -v grep
8 R root 9665 1 0 50 20 ? 12294 17:11:23
pts/11 0:13 /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_03/bin/java -Dj
8 R root 9510 1 0 50 20 ? 11906 16:22:41
pts/11 0:15 /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_03/bin/java -Dj
8 R root 9682 1 25 99 20 ? 11267 17:12:04
pts/11 0:09 /usr/local/jre1.5.0_03//bin/java -D

Now looking at nestat info, I get listening on port 8080 but going to a
browser and http://localhost:8080 produces nothing. jakarta process is
not running.

# netstat -an | grep 8080
*.8080 *.* 0 0 24576 0
LISTEN
127.0.0.1.33149 127.0.0.1.8080 32768 0 32768 0
TIME_WAIT
172.18.5.91.33156 172.18.5.95.8080 0 0 24820 0
SYN_SENT
#

Why is this happening, what can I do about it?

Hi Juha.

This did the trick. I followed the instructions and was able to start
the Tomcat 5.5 server. It took about 1-1.5 minutes for it to go from
33% to 0.7% and it started serving requests. I was expecting it to
server requests immediately, much like Apache. Interesting experience.

BTW, the platform is Solaris 8.