Trouble installng Tomcat on (Debian) Linux

[Gregory Guthrie <gguthrie@mum.edu>]

I installed tomcat on my Debian Linux system from 

Apache runs fine, but I have tomcat problems.

1) How do I test it with their examples? There is a webapps/examples.war;
how do I invoke it?

2) Do I have to manually start it (per the Install "how to run"
instructions?), or shouldn't it be automatically started as needed by
Apache, like Jserv. There is a /etc/init.d/tomcat, so why manually
start?
 -- I want to run with Apache.

3) I tried to look at examples.war, "jar -vft examples.jar",
but it fails (see below), yet the startup (more below) seems to have
successfully loaded them?

omega:/usr/share/java/webapps#
jar vft examples.war
java.io.IOException: CRC of 0 is not valid in a DATA header
        at
java.lang.Throwable.fillInStackTrace(Throwable.java:native)
        at
java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Throwable.java:38)
        at
java.lang.Exception.<init>(Exception.java:24)
        at
java.io.IOException.<init>(IOException.java:25)
        at
java.util.zip.ZipInputStream.closeEntry(ZipInputStream.java:137)
        at
kaffe.tools.jar.Jar.listFilesInJar(Jar.java:605)
        at
kaffe.tools.jar.Jar.processJar(Jar.java:402)
        at
kaffe.tools.jar.Jar.start(Jar.java:60)
        at
kaffe.tools.jar.Jar.main(Jar.java:39)

4) I went into /usr/share/tomcat/bin/tomcat and ran
"./tomcat.sh run", but got lots of errors (see below) which I
didn't get the gist of. (I do have libgmp2 installed). One concern in
that the startup file (init.d/tomcat) says: 
   "# Look for the right JVM to use - Tomcat does not work
with Kaffe!"

but the error below reports Kaffe, and indeed:

        

omega:/etc/init.d#
java !$

        

java
-version

        

Kaffe
Virtual Machine

        

Copyright
(c) 1996-2000

        

Transvirtual
Technologies, Inc.  All rights reserved

        

Engine:
Just-in-time v3   Version: 1.0.6   Java Version:
1.1

In any case I never get any errors in tomcat.log (which in fact does not
exist!)

Thanks for any help.
Gregory (guthrie@mum.edu)

I am running Debian Linux 2.2
w/

        

http://master.debian.org/~sgybas/tomcat/
(tomcat Version: 3.1.99b6-1)

        

ibm-jdk1.1  (1.18)      [ibm-jdk-l118-linux-x86.tgz]

        

ibm-jre1.1  (1.18)       [ibm-jre-l118-linux-x86.tgz]

> omega:/usr/share/tomcat/bin# ./tomcat.sh run
> Guessing TOMCAT_HOME from tomcat.sh to ./..
> Setting TOMCAT_HOME to ./..
> Using classpath: .:./../lib/servlet.jar:./../lib/tomcat.jar:./../lib/xerces.jar
> org.apache.xerces.validators.datatype.InvalidDatatypeFacetException: [exception was kaffe.util.SupportDisabled: GNU gmp was not found by Kaffe configure script]
>         at java.lang.Throwable.fillInStackTrace(Throwable.java:native)
>         at java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Throwable.java:38)
>         at java.lang.Exception.<init>(Exception.java:24)
>         at org.apache.xerces.validators.datatype.XMLException.<init>(XMLException.java:line unknown, pc 0x83edb81)
>         at org.apache.xerces.validators.datatype.InvalidDatatypeFacetException.<init>(InvalidDatatypeFacetException.java:line unknown, pc 0x851108a)
>         at org.apache.xerces.validators.datatype.DatatypeValidatorFactoryImpl.createDatatypeValidator(DatatypeValidatorFactoryImpl.java:line unknown, pc 0x83491f2)
>         at org.apache.xerces.validators.datatype.DatatypeValidatorFactoryImpl.createDatatypeValidator(DatatypeValidatorFactoryImpl.java:line unknown, pc 0x839bdfe)
>         at org.apache.xerces.validators.datatype.DatatypeValidatorFactoryImpl.initializeRegistry(DatatypeValidatorFactoryImpl.java:line unknown, pc 0x83a71a7)
>         at org.apache.xerces.validators.datatype.DatatypeValidatorFactoryImpl.<init>(DatatypeValidatorFactoryImpl.java:line unknown, pc 0x8337fca)
>         at org.apache.xerces.validators.datatype.DatatypeValidatorFactoryImpl.<clinit>(DatatypeValidatorFactoryImpl.java:line unknown, pc 0x838826e)
>         at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.<init>(XMLParser.java:line unknown, pc 0x8339456)
>         at org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser.<init>(SAXParser.java:line unknown, pc 0x82ad68a)
>         at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl.<init>(SAXParserImpl.java:line unknown, pc 0x82c50ba)
>         at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl.newSAXParser(SAXParserFactoryImpl.java:line unknown, pc 0x82ad1ae)
>         at org.apache.tomcat.util.xml.XmlMapper.readXml(XmlMapper.java:213)
>         at org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.execute(Tomcat.java:189)
>         at org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.main(Tomcat.java:237)
>
> 2000-10-30 08:07:50 - ContextManager: Adding context Ctx( /examples )
> 2000-10-30 08:07:51 - ContextManager: Adding context Ctx( /admin )
> Starting tomcat. Check logs/tomcat.log for error messages 
> No apps in webapps/ 
> 2000-10-30 08:07:59 - PoolTcpConnector: Starting HttpConnectionHandler on 8081

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Gregory Guthrie

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