Problem with Tomcat: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

Question

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I’m new to JSP. I’m following a tutorial from a book, but I’m facing a problem in one of the first steps of the example web app.

I’ve installed the Tomcat 6.0, and this is it’s full path:
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0

The book says that to start Tomcat, I must cd into the Tomcat home directory and run bin/startup.sh, but since there is not any startup.sh file into bin folder, I do bin/tomcat6.exe.
I don’t know If that is right, but Tomcat seems to start correctly that way.

But here is the problem : I created a folder (named Beer-v1) with an HTML form inside (form.html), and I placed everything into the already existing folder webapps.
This is the full path of the html file:
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\Beer-v1\form.html
So I type in my browser: http://localhost:8080/Beer-v1/form.html , but the page “503 Service Temporarily Unavailable” is displayed, and not the form.html.
What am I doing wrong?.
Please help.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The book says that to start Tomcat, I must cd into the Tomcat home directory and run bin/startup.sh, but since there is not any startup.sh file into bin folder, I do bin/tomcat6.exe.

If you don't have TOMCAT_HOME/bin/startup.bat which should be used for Windows instead of startup.sh for Unix/Linux, but have tomcat6.exe and tomcat6w.exe, then you've probably installed Tomcat through an installer.

What you need to do, is on the system tray, find the tomcat logo, right-click on it and start it. Alternatively, run Services.msc (from windows Run) and start Apache Tomcat 6 service.