Is your Debian install of Tomcat 5.5 not working with your Webapp?
Just a heads up for anyone with problems trying to get webapps working with Debian. I highly recommend installing Tomcat 6.0 from source. It helped clear a number of issues for me. Debian only supports Tomcat 5.5 in their package management system. I could have gone with unstable to get Tomcat 6.0, but I prefer not to deal with their folder organization layout (see below)
Here are a few resources I've used to install Tomcat 6.0 in Debian Lenny.
- How to Install Tomcat 6 in Debian Lenny. This is an excellent step-by-step tutorial. A+ in my book.
- http://www.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/ Connector/J, MySQL JDBC Connector download.
- http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/jndi-datasource-examples-howto.html. Tomcat 6.0 configuration with MySQL Connector/J JDBC.