deploying JSPs under tomcat

[Alex Kravets]

I've installed tomcat on my machine at home on Windows and Linux at least 4 times and everything worked fine. Trying to install Tomcat at work and something weird is going on. I untared binary files, changed the ports and can see Tomcat welcome page. But, when I go to Jsp-Examples directory there are no files there. Even more, when I create a file in one of the jsp-examples sub-directories I get error that file could not be compiled when I try to access the page thru browser:
[CODE]
SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /export/home/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.4/work/Catalina/localhost/jsp-examples/org/apache/jsp/colors/index_jsp.java (No such file or direc
tory)
[/CODE}

What's going on here?

thanks,
Alex

[Ben Souther]

Sounds like a permissions issue to me.
Does the user that tomcat is running under have write permissions for the TOMCAT_HOME/work directory?

[Alex Kravets]

it didn't so I changed it.
But, if I go to /export/home/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.4/work/Catalina/localhost/jsp-examples/ the directory listing is tldCache.ser?

[Ben Souther]

Originally posted by Alex Kravets:
it didn't so I changed it.
But, if I go to /export/home/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.4/work/Catalina/localhost/jsp-examples/ the directory listing is tldCache.ser?

That may have shipped with Tomcat. The examples are precompiled. Are you JSPs working now?

[Alex Kravets]

strange, now when I want to access tomcat thru my IP the browser just sits there without resolving the URL.