I understand that in
Tomcat 5.5 they decided not to install the admin app by default. So, I downloaded it separately (jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9-admin.zip) from the Windows installer (jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9.exe).
However, when I deposit the admin app's conf and server directories into Tomcat's respective directories, I can't access "/admin" in the browser. It reports the error "Tomcat's administration web application is no longer installed by default. Download and install the "admin" package to use it."
I'm wondering if there is something that I have to do to one or more of the configuration files (admin.xml or others) after putting them in the conf and server directories to get them to correctly map the "/admin" to the installed app.
Also, I performed a search for the exact text of the error, and found one file - index.html - in the {installDir}/webapps/ROOT/admin directory. I tried deleting this file, to see if it would give me a 404 error instead, but the browser just kept feeding me the same "...no longer installed by default..." error - so I'm stumped.
So I have a couple questions:
1) How do I correctly install the admin app for Tomcat 5.5.x?
2) What is the special ROOT directory under {installDir}/webapps used for?
3) What is the difference between the {installDir}/webapps directory and the {installDir}/server/webapps directory?
Any and all help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
-joe