http localhost 8080 Access Error 404 -- Not Found Cannot locate document

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I m really very new to this Tomcat stuff  I downloaded Tomcat 7 0 windows installer and installed it using the default configuration  After installing  I typed localhost 8080 in my browser to see if Tomcat is working  However it showed error message like this  Access Error  404 -- Not Found Cannot locate document     And there s nothing else show with Tomcat or Apache words in the page  It seems Tomcat not responding    I googled and searched this forum  but so far the solutions people provided didn t work for me    checked the server xml file  8080 is the HTTP connector port    Connector port  8080  protocol  HTTP 1 1  connectionTimeout  20000  redirectPort  8443  I did run the Tomcat7 exe in the  bin folder  Something run in the command window and disappeared then  Nothing changed then   I set some environment system variables like JAVA HOME  PATH  and CLASSPATH according to some tutorials online     Still not work  Only things I m suspicious are  1  I have two JRE folder  jre6 and jre7 in the program files directory  Tomcat7 chose the jre7 one  2  I installed anyother server called Wamp server  which I used to learn some PHP programming with SQL usage  There s Apache in the package  Not sure if it s using 8080 port    Please help  I ve already digged online more than 2hrs for this headache  Any comments are welcome

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your 8080 port is already used by another application 1  you can try to find out which app is using it  using  netstat -aon  and stop the process  2  you can go to server xml and change from port 8080 to another one  ex  8081

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You can run below commands  I believe this is what you want     Note  Make sure the port 8080 is open  If not  kill the process that is using 8080 port using sudo kill -9   sudo lsof -t -i 8080      catalina sh run

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A tip for others  if you have NI applications installed  the NI Application Web Server also uses the port 8080

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For CentOS users  at least   one will also get a 404 error trying to access the server on port 8080 on a fresh install if the tomcat-webapps package is not installed

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When I had an error Access Error  404 -- Not Found I fixed it by doing the following    Open command prompt and type  netstat -aon   without the quotes  Search for port 8080 and look at its PID number code  Open Task Manager  CTRL ALT DELETE   go to Services tab  and find the service with the exact PID number  Then right click it and stop the process

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I think I figured out the questions after reading the log  Thanks to Will s reminder  I checked the log and found out the some program else is listening to that port  Before I can start to figure out which program  my computer was restarted and localhost 8080 works and showing tomcat page  Whooh

[apache] http://localhost:8080/ Access Error: 404 -- Not Found Cannot locate document: /

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