http://localhost:8080/ gives the normal Tomcat start page. I am also able to go to:
http://localhost:8080/axis which is another folder in the …/webapps folder. But there must be something with redirecting because /geoserver is at the same level as /axis. If I put i.ex. “test.html” in /axis I can read it. If I put the same file in …/geoserver/test.html I get the same message
type Status report
message
description The requested resource () is not available.
Sorry but I am a bit lost here 
/asle
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:17:14 -0400
From: Justin Deoliveira <jdeolive@anonymised.com>
Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] Installing geoserver on OS X 10.5
To: Asle Benoni <asle.benoni@anonymised.com84…>
Cc: Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Message-ID: <49B951AA.3070604@anonymised.com>
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Asle Benoni wrote:
Sorry, I didn’t notice I was only responding to you
.
On OS X Server (it comes with installed Tomcat):
- How do I know which user is running Tomcat?
Hmmm… not sure exactly. I usually download tomcat separately and run
it manually on my mac.- I tried to give full permissions to the files in error, no more luck
The log is still a bit hard to filter out. But one thing i do see alot
of is “java.net.BindException: Address already in use:8080”, which
means another service is probably running on port 8080. What do you see
when you visit http://localhost:8080?
Regardless, you can change the port to some other like 9090. Just edit
the conf/server.xml, search for 8080 and change appropriately.
/asle
2009/3/11 Justin Deoliveira <jdeolive@anonymised.com
mailto:[jdeolive@anonymised.com](mailto:jdeolive@anonymised.com)>Hi Asle,
Best if you keep stuff on the public list so others can learn, and
also help.Looking at the log file there is a bunch of stuff in there… but
one thing that pops out is:Cannot Write to file: /Library/Tomcat/webapps/
geoserver/data/services.x
mlSo it could be a permissions issue. The user that is running tomcat
needs write access to the webapps/geoserver directory. If you could
try checking that and restart that would be great.If you do see another problem, can i ask you to first clear out
catalog.out, restart and try again. That way we will know what
exactly the relevant error is.Thanks,
-Justin
Asle Benoni wrote:
Here is the attached catalina.out.
/asle
2009/3/11 Justin Deoliveira <jdeolive@anonymised.com
mailto:[jdeolive@anonymised.com](mailto:jdeolive@anonymised.com) <mailto:jdeolive@anonymised.com
mailto:[jdeolive@anonymised.com](mailto:jdeolive@anonymised.com)>>Hi Asle,
It would be helpful if you could attach the start up log.
Probably
in /Library/Tomcat/logs/catalina.out.-Justin
Asle Benoni wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to install on OS X Server 10.5 which comes with
Tomcat already installed. I copied the geoserver.war to
/Library/Tomcat/webapps/.
I start Tomcat and navigate to
http://localhost:8080/geoserver
I am sure this is the correct folder for the webapps checking
the other apps and testing with a new file in the folder.But when I navigate to geoserver URL I get this error:
type Status report
message
description The requested resource () is not available.
I checked to see that the war file was unpacked and there
is now
a folder “geoserver”. What am I doing wrong?/asle