Hello, I find myseld in this situation: I'm trying to install Geoserver on Debian following the guide of Geoserver. Unfortunalely when I try to connect to localhost:8080/geoserver the page gives me back:

HTTP Status 404 - /geoserver

type Status report

message /geoserver

description The requested resource (/geoserver) is not available. Apache Tomcat/7.0.28

What should I do in this case?
Catalina logs just tell me:

SEVERE: Context [/geoserver] startup failed due to previous errors

quite general as response.

Thank you

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friedjoff CreditAttribution: friedjoff commented

Hi,

can you provide some more information about your installation approach? In particular is the GeoServer WAR-file unpacked and is there a directory like /var/lib/tomcat/webapps/geoserver/?

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fmantov CreditAttribution: fmantov commented

Thank you,

This are the files on the diretory, and as you can see the owner it tomcat7:tomcat7

/var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/geoserver# ls -l
total 16
drwxrwxrwx  3 tomcat7 tomcat7 4096 Nov 25 19:26 META-INF
drwxrwxrwx  5 tomcat7 tomcat7 4096 Nov 27 16:31 WEB-INF
drwxrwxrwx 14 tomcat7 tomcat7 4096 Nov 25 19:26 data
-rwxrwxrwx  1 tomcat7 tomcat7  697 Sep 18  2013 index.html

Telling you the truth after several try I arrived to install geoserver on a VirtualBox machine Linux 12.04 but the 404 problem still persist on my Debian Squeez also following the geoserver guide step by step: http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/installation/linux/debian.html

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Anonymous (not verified) CreditAttribution: Anonymous commented

Hi,

can you provide more information from your logfiles:

- /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/geoserver/data/logs/geoserver.log
- /var/lib/tomcat7/logs/catalina.out
- /var/lib/tomcat7/logs/localhost..log, e.g. localhost.2014-11-28.log

Best regards,
Patric

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fmantov CreditAttribution: fmantov commented
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Thank you soooo much in helping me in this!!

1) seems like I don't have "geoserver.log" in

- /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/geoserver/data/geoserver.log

but I have it in:

- /usr/local/geoserver/data_dir/logs/geoserver.log

2) all the other logs were stored in:

/var/log/tomcat7

and you can find the folder in attachment

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fmantov CreditAttribution: fmantov commented

I have fixed by myself the GeoServer-Cartaro problem for Debian and I have tested on more that one Debian installation. Now no more 404 problem at http://localhost:8080/geoserver
How to solve the problem in 3 steps:

  1. follow the guide that is for Ubuntu 12.04 but will be alright till you don't find the step that tells you to install add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
  2. when you arrive at the step that tells you to install add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java stop there and follow this guide in order to install oracle-java7-installer
  3. After installation of oracle-java7-installer follow all the other steps of guide at point 1 and don't forget to add JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle at your /etc/default/tomcat7

Done guys. Don't forget to eat colored gelly bears. :)

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Anonymous (not verified) CreditAttribution: Anonymous commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)