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Rajani
Rajani

Reputation: 271

Apache Tomcat installed and running, but localhost:8080 presents blank page in browser

I am using Fedora 16, and I have installed Apache Tomcat, using the tomcat6 package.

In the terminal I have started Tomcat:

[rajani@localhost ~]$ sudo service tomcat6 start
[sudo] password for rajani: 
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl  start tomcat6.service
[rajani@localhost ~]$

But if I browse to http://localhost:8080 it simply shows a blank page. Please give me solution.

Upvotes: 16

Views: 47482

Answers (6)

Filip Savic
Filip Savic

Reputation: 3230

I didn't get exactly a blank page, but it was an error page:

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I was just missing the path to my page.

I went to "localhost:8080/api/greetings" but I forgot that I wrote

server.contextPath=/myapp

in my application.properties file(which is located in src/main/resources).

So, the correct path was "localhost:8080/myap/api/greetings". That was my mistake. I hope it helps someone.

Upvotes: 0

Nazifa Karima
Nazifa Karima

Reputation: 1

I had the same problem with Ubuntu 14.04 and Tomcat7. In my case, the /etc/tomcat7/context.xml had two entries. removing one of them solved the problem.

Upvotes: 0

Konstantin Boyanov
Konstantin Boyanov

Reputation: 453

I had the same problem under Fedora 16; the Tomcat 7 packages installed correctly, but I couldn't see anything at localhost:8080. I googled around and found that I need to install some additional packages in order for the default webapps to work. Here is the solution that worked for me:

# sudo yum install tomcat-admin-webapps.noarch tomcat-docs-webapp.noarch tomcat-javadoc.noarch tomcat-systemv.noarch tomcat-webapps.noarch

Upvotes: 26

Kranthi
Kranthi

Reputation: 117

Ensure that ${TOMCAT_HOME}/webapps/ROOT directory is available. ROOT/index.html is the default file that gets loaded when you try to access http://localhost:8080

Upvotes: -1

Raju Katta
Raju Katta

Reputation: 11

I think you deleted under webapps folder files like root folder etc download or again install some other place copy paste in wep app folder it will work

the default Tomcat home page. It can be found on the local filesystem at:

$CATALINA_HOME/webapps/ROOT/index.html

where $CATALINA_HOME is the root of the Tomcat installation directory. If you're seeing this page, and you don't think you should be, then you're either a user who has arrived at new installation of Tomcat, or you're an administrator who hasn't got his/her setup quite right. Providing the latter is the case, please refer to the Tomcat Documentation for more detailed setup and administration information than is found in the INSTALL file.

Upvotes: 1

Chris White
Chris White

Reputation: 30089

If there is no content in $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps, then yes you will see a blank empty page.

Have you installed the tomcat6-webapps rpm? This provides the ROOT and examples web applications for tomcat:

http://pkgs.org/fedora-centos-rhel-opensuse-mandriva/jpackage-5.0-updates-i386/tomcat6-webapps-6.0.35-1.jpp5.noarch.rpm.html

Upvotes: 1

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