Newbie trying to use tomcat to run jsp

Question

I'm just trying to setup Tomcat on my machine, and i've run into a couple of issues.
(1) if i type in http://localhost:9000/test in IE, it gives me an error saying TCP_ERROR and how the web server is possibly down. however if i try it in Netscape, the page shows up fine. I read in the running.txt file that it had something to do with the LAN settings, but i have no idea what has to be done in there to get it to work??
(2) the second issue is, if i give someone the url http://<IP>:9000/test that is using another machine, what has to be done for them to see it? i had someone on another machine try it and they got page could not be found.
TIA

Answer 1

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(1) if i type in http://localhost:9000/test in IE, it
gives me an error saying TCP_ERROR and how the web
server is possibly down. Do you mean HTTP 500 error?
however if i try it in
Netscape, the page shows up fine. I read in the
running.txt file that it had something to do with the
LAN settings, but i have no idea what has to be done
in there to get it to work??
No LAN settings are needed. You're doing something else wrong. Is there a TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/test directory set up? Unless you created it, there's no such URL in Tomcat's setup.
(2) the second issue is, if i give someone the url
http://<IP>:9000/test that is using another machine,
what has to be done for them to see it? i had someone
on another machine try it and they got page could not
be found.
TIA If they can see the machine on the network, you don't have to do anything else special. If they can ping it, they can talk to Tomcat.
If you're a newbie, as your topic says, why are you changing things like the Tomcat port? Leave it as the default until you have Tomcat under your belt. - MOD