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I've installed tomcat7 as best I can via apt-get (after removing a perfectly working tomcat6) on ubuntu running on a vmware image. I've added a user with several manager roles in tomcat-users.xml and have modified the Connector's port from 8080 to 80.

When I start tomcat with "sudo service start tomcat7" I get the message:

 * Starting Tomcat servlet engine tomcat7

but my browser doesn't get any response from either localhost:80 or localhost:8080. Furthermore,

 netstat | grep 80

doesn't show either port 80 or port 8080 in use.

I can find no trace of any log files in or around the catalina directory referred to by both $CATALINA_HOME and $CATALINA_BASE.

Should I be looking somewhere else for the logs? Any other recommendations?

Chris Gerken
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    Can you paste your tomcat-users.xml to pastebin.ubuntu.com and post the link to your question? – jobin Mar 29 '14 at 18:28
  • Following command should show you whom listening on which port: netstat -plnt What do you see when executing? Is it actually running? sudo service tomcat status Check logs folder for clues: ${catalina.base}/logs – micrub Apr 03 '14 at 16:06

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You mention VMware, so I presume that this is on a VM? A delay in Tomcat starting could be due to a shortage of entropy, as described in bug 1269073.

This should be fixed in Trusty cloud images with the new pollinate system. If you aren't using official Ubuntu cloud images, try installing pollinate by hand.

(This may not be the answer in your specific case, but it is one avenue to investigate for anybody with this kind of issue)

Robie Basak
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