Won't load the Start-up page

[RollyS]

Hi, I’m a newbie on Apache Tomcat. It took me a long time to get its configuration right and now I’m finally able to test my JSPs and servlets on it. Then all of a sudden one day, upon starting my Tomcat (v5.5), this error hit me:

type Status report
message /overview-summary.html
description The requested resource (/overview-summary.html) is not available.

What I don’t understand is I’m still able to test my JSPs and servlets but I can’t get the startup page when I go to

http://localhost:80.

I checked the overview-summary.html file but it’s there. Can somebody help me? I'm using Win2000 Pro SP4. Thanks

 

[prosper]

it should be

http://localhost:8080/message/overview-summary.html

 

[prosper]

If there may be other tomcat server or other web server running on your machine, try to set Connector port="8080" to Connector port="8081" in the conf/server.xml file.

Then you will need to type

http://localhost:8081/message/overview-summary.html

Backup the config file before doing changes

 

[sedj]

prosper,

What makes you think that the URL should be

http://localhost:8080/message/overview-summary.html

?

The OP could well be running Tomcat on port 80 also - not 8080.

RollyS,

What port have you comfigured Tomcat to run on ? The defaul t is 8080, but people do change it. Have you ?
Are you running Tomcat standalone, or behind Apache HTTPD ?
Where is your webapp ? Have you checked the actual files are there ? What URL do you actually call ?



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[RollyS]

Yap, I did change the port no. to 80 so that I can log in even by just typing

http://localhost:80

or by simply

http://localhost.

Previously both could lead me to the Startup page now it wouldn't.

 

[prosper]

is there a firewall set up on your network recently?
If so, try

http://yourcomputername:8080/

 

[prosper]

http://yourcomputername:80/

I assume you use Windows and you can find your computer name in system icon and computer name option.

 

[RollyS]

It's OK, you can forget about this problem. I've decided to give this a rest. I've switched to lower version of Tomcat 5. And i'm able to get along fine with my self-study -- so far. Thanks guys.