Hi William,
The download is proper, i did check that... I am posting the foll msgs so that you get a better picture and possibly help me out....
C:\Tomcat41\bin>catalina.bat run
Using CATALINA_BASE: C:\Tomcat41
Using CATALINA_HOME: C:\Tomcat41
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: ..\temp
Using JAVA_HOME: C:\j2sdk1.4.2_01
Directory C:\Tomcat41\bin\..\lib does not exist............................
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After creating a folder lib in c:\Tomcat41 and running catalina .. server
started...
C:\Tomcat41\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.29\bin>catalina.bat run
Using CATALINA_BASE: C:\Tomcat41
Using CATALINA_HOME: C:\Tomcat41
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: ..\temp
Using JAVA_HOME: C:\j2sdk1.4.2_01
Mar 21, 2004 1:23:32 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on port 8081
Starting service Tomcat-Standalone
Apache Tomcat/4.1.29
Mar 21, 2004 1:23:34 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on port 8081
Mar 21, 2004 1:23:34 PM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK2: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
Mar 21, 2004 1:23:34 PM org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/31 config=C:\Tomcat41\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.29\bin\..
\conf\jk2.properties
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Message on the browser while accessing
http://localhost:8081/index.jsp HTTP Status 503 - Servlet jsp is currently unavailable
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type Status report
message Servlet jsp is currently unavailable
description The requested service (Servlet jsp is currently unavailable) is not currently available.
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Apache Tomcat/4.1.29................
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Thanks
Johnny