My experience installing jetty 6.1.5 on centos5. Java is already installed, there is a symlink /usr/java/jdk and #java -version java version "1.6.0" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-b105) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.6.0-b105, mixed mode, sharing) The older HOWTO is here: http://rimuhosting.com/jetty.jsp First, download and unzip jetty: {code:none} { VERSION=6.1.5 cd /opt if [ -e jetty ]; then mv jetty jetty.old fi wget "http://dist.codehaus.org/jetty/jetty-$VERSION/jetty-$VERSION.zip" unzip jetty-$VERSION.zip ln -sf /opt/jetty-$VERSION /opt/jetty adduser -s /sbin/nologin -d /opt/jetty jetty chown -R jetty:jetty /opt/jetty rm -rf /opt/jetty/logs mkdir -p /var/log/jetty ln -s /var/log/jetty /opt/jetty/logs mv /opt/jetty/etc /etc/jetty ln -s /etc/jetty /opt/jetty/etc } {code} Next, test that jetty runs correctly: {code:none} cd /opt/jetty java -jar start.jar etc/jetty.xml {code} Jetty should start on port 8080, connect with your browser and check it out. If there are errors at this point, read them carefully. Hit Ctrl-C to quit. Next, we need to make jetty start up nicely as a service. It comes with a script, bin/jetty.sh Try: {code:none} /opt/jetty/bin/jetty.sh check /opt/jetty/bin/jetty.sh start {code} Startup script (usually /etc/init.d/jetty): {code:none} #!/bin/sh exec su - -c "/opt/jetty/bin/jetty.sh $1" {code} However, it really doesn't look like the developers intend for you to run jetty as non-root, or at least I can't figure out how. You can chmod -R root: /opt/jetty but... 2007-11-12 18:36:01.0 2007-07-23 23:07:21.0