Tomcat5 on RHEL AS3? Has *ANYBODY* managed to install this <censored> package?

[Lloyd H. Meinholz]

I haven't figured out how RedHat handles java yet, so I downloaded Sun's
JDK and installed it in /opt/j2sdk-1.4.2_04, made a symbolic link from
/usr/java to /opt/j2sdk-1.4.2_04, set the JAVA_HOME environment variable
to /usr/java, appended /usr/java/bin to my path, downloaded and
installed the tomcat binary and ran it. I've actually done quite a bit
more tweaking, but I believe this should get you started.

Like I said, I haven't found much information or had much luck with the
RedHat installed java or tomcat.

Lloyd


On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 19:03, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
> I think the subject says it all.
> 
> I've set up my server and installed RHEL AS 3.0 on it.  I'm beginning to
> long for the days of M$, where all I had to do was run a <censored> .exe
> file, and it ran.  *sigh*
> 
> Okay, I downloaded something that purports to be an "executable" from the
> jakarta project, but the readme says that I have to have Java installed.
> Okay, I couldn't find any java packages installed, so I tried "which
> java", which showed a /usr/bin/java.  Cool, so I try running it.  I get
> some text message stating that it's nothing but a place holder for some
> other stuff. ack.  So I try up2date java.  no dice. I can't find the j2sdk
> or jre or anything recognizable, and I'm afraid to download Sun's because
> it might break whatever was installed by the installer!
> 
> Has *ANYBODY* installed tomcat5 on a virgin RHEL AS 3 install?  Is there a
> coherent HOWTO anywhere?  I've been googling and downloading crap for two
> hours now, and I'm about at my limit.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
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