funky1

Well, I'm a little confused on how to proceed... Tomcat 5 says it uses servlet 2.4 and JSP spec 2.0, but I don't know what exactly I'm needing from sun. I looked arround sun's java site and I see where they offer and I see basicly J2SE and J2EE. I don't know what is what and I can't really tell by reading. I assume that I need one of those too, but I don't want to break anything. On the other hand, I see in RPM drake that there is an RPM for j2sdk-1.4.2_01-01mdk. That is sdk like you said I needed, but it is 1.4.2, which if I'm reading the specs for tomcat 5 correctly, it needs version 2.4? I really appreacite your help and I hate to be a pest :( but I'm so close I can taste it, but I'm just not sure how to proceed! Thanks so much for all your help!!! I really appreciate it! tfunk

I downloaded it and extracted it and things went pretty well :) Thanks for your help! It seems that you have to install java in addition to installing tomcat? Is that right? When I try the ./catalina run command it keeps blowing up and saying the "The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined" Any adive here? Thanks! Tfunk

That does sound easy! (Much easier than I was thinking it would be) If that's really all there is to it I think I'll give it a shot. A few more clarification if you would: Is there a reccomended path to put things like this? For example, this will be a publicly available site (hopefully) so should I make the directory for it where apache is? Does extracting tomcat create the webapp directory your referring to? I tried a find and a locate and I don't have one, so I assume that installing tomcat does it. I was under the impression that the source had to be tweaked depending if you were running Mandrake or Redhat or Debian or whatever. Is that not the case? I can just download the source and extract it and that's all there is too it? Wow...If that's the way it works I've been afraid of mandrake way to long :) Thanks for your help! Tfunk

Hi All, I installed php/apache on 9.2 via rpm. Now my wife is trying to actaully put code on it but she is requiring bcmath. The best info I've found says that it's built into php4, but is only turned on when you do a --with-bcmath when you compile. Any advice on how to change it? I haven't yet learned about compiling software, but I would guess that rpm has to do something like that when it installs the package. How can I add that option now that it's installed via rpm? Thanks for any pointers! Tfunk

thanks for your help,but that'sway over my head... I'll have to do more reading before I get the guts to try it :)

I'm trying to find a rpm that will install tomcat on my apache server (Mandrake 9.2) rpmDrake comes up with nothing. I've googled and found a link to download one for 9.2 on rpmfind, but it blows up missing dependencies :( It has to be out there because when I search this forum I see other folks talking about their install of it and different problems they are having with their code playing nicely with it. I have to be missing something here. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks so much!!!! Tfunk

Hi All! First off...I'm new here, so please forgive the newbie question, but I just can't get VNC installed. I've googled and I've looked through the FAQ, and I've searched for VNC (which is to short for the forum search) tightvnc, and remote desktop and I've not found anything to help other than a link to the VNC website. Can someone please point me to a doc fit for a newbie to install VNC or another remote desktop toll that will allow me to access my mandrake 9.2.1 box from a winXP machine? Thanks for any pointers! Tfunk