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Unable to connect to tomcat through browser

Oct 25th, 2009

I have tomcat 6.0.18 running on my laptop. Tomcat is installed under my /home/xxx/bin directory. However, after I start tomcat, I'm unable to connect to tomcat through my browser but my eclipse is able to do so. I do not get any error message, the browser just keeps on trying.

I've reached a dead end trying to resolve this. Any ideas, anybody ??

Last edited by deepak.marur; Oct 25th, 2009 at 4:02 am. Reason: give more info on issue

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Oct 26th, 2009

in your tomcat home directory check the logs folder you should find log files in there, see if you can find any answers in there

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If Tomcat been installed through IDE it may have assign different port then 8080 or 80. Check it with server.xml file that is inside conf folder of your Tomcat directory

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Thanks a lot. catalina.out gave me the clue. The error was in tomcat-users.xml. The user and role element did not have the closing forward slash /. This is surprising, since this is a fresh install of Tomcat. Anyways I'm now able to see the tomcat index page.