How do I access a tomcat 5.5 installation via localhost running on Virtual PC 2007?

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Question

I have a tomcat installation of 5.5 up and running on a Virtual PC with a fresh XP pro SP3. Launching tomcat gives the standard messages:

INFO: Find registry server-registry.xml at classpath resource Apr 12, 2010 11:43:44 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start INFO: Server startup in 3576 ms

However, I cannot for the life of me connect to http://localhost:8080. I've also tried http://127.0.0.1:8080 with no success. This is on the virtual PC itself that I cannot connect to the server - I haven't bothered to try it on the host machine.

Can anyone provide any information on why this may be happening? It's a fresh install of tomcat using Sun's JRE 5.0 (I know, EOL, technical requirements make me have to use 5.0 and not a newer JRE).

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Solution

Ok, apparently I downloaded a bad copy of Tomcat - it may happen from time to time. If anyone else has this problem in the future, try re-downloading Tomcat and testing it on your host machine first - if it works there it will probably then work on the virtual PC.

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