I installed Tomcat8 on Debian Jessie using apt-get in a Docker file. I then sudo service tomcat8 start.
This results in this error:
[FAIL] Starting Tomcat servlet engine: tomcat8 failed!
However, it actually seems to be working, because I can successfully connect via localhost to the default tomcat homepage. (I've verified I'm not connecting to a cached copy).
When I look at the catalina.out log in /var/lib/tomcat8/logs, I see no errors:
May 06, 2017 3:37:26 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/ROOT
May 06, 2017 3:37:27 PM org.apache.jasper.servlet.TldScanner scanJars
INFO: At least one JAR was scanned for TLDs yet contained no TLDs. Enable debug logging for this logger for a complete list of JARs that wer
scanned but no TLDs were found in them. Skipping unneeded JARs during scanning can improve startup time and JSP compilation time.
May 06, 2017 3:37:27 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deployment of web application directory /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/ROOT has finished in 924 ms
May 06, 2017 3:37:27 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-8080"]
May 06, 2017 3:37:27 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 967 ms
I'd like to figure out the cause of this FAIL message.