dont know how, but i managed my tomcat5.5 to stop working (its not even showing up the default page)...on my ubuntu 7.04 workspace.
i tried repairing it and i failed.

the next thing i tried was to remove the configuration files (complete removal) of tc5.5 and all its dependencies too

then i reinstalled tc5.5 and the problem lies still there !!!

i am stuck because i can neither repair nor reinstall tc.

i have read that we can have multiple instances of tc on the same web-server....so can i manage to install one more tomcat on my system?? if yes..then how ..because the package manager has no such provision of adding the same piece of software twice...

Yup,
Instead of using the installer to install Tomcat, you can download a .tar.gz version of Tomcat and unzip it to your disk. Get into bin directory of this Tomcat installation and run ./catalina.sh start

This should help you to get running another instance of Tomcat.

PS: Do not forget to export JAVA_HOME, CATALINA_HOME varaibles before you run catalina.sh

-eNJay

I should have written:

nstead of using the Package Manager to install Tomcat, you can...

thanks a lot !!
actually i was just trying to avoid this approach...but finally i did install tc6 by this method only..