Re: Tomcat: Refused localhost:8080

["jonsoons" <jsoons@juilliard.edu>]

Fred Blaise wrote:
> This is not exactly the right list to ask this question. I would
rather
> try the tomcat-users list.
> However, check into $CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.out for more
> information about your tomcat server startup. I am pretty sure you
will
> find your error in there.
>
> fred
>
> On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 02:22 -0600, Manudath Gurudatha wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to build a Tomcat server on my Linux machine. I have
> > successfully installed/configured Apache and J2SDK 1.4
> >
> > I have set the environment vars TOMCAT_HOME, CATALINA_HOME,
JAVA_HOME
> > and exported them too...
> >
> > When I run the startup.sh in $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/ directory, it shows
a
> > couple of env varibales like "Using CATALINA_BASE... Using
> > CATALINA_HOME... Using JRE_HOME (same as my JAVA_HOME)..."
> >
> > Still when I try http://localhost:8080 on my browser, I get the
error
> > "The connection was refused when attempting to connect to contact
> > localhost:8080"
> >
> > I have even disabled the firewall... Any ideas would be sincerely
appreciated...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Manudath
> >
> >


When you go to http://localhost/ do you see your web server?
If not then localhost is not resolving. Try http://127.0.0.1:8080/
and see what happens.