tomcat 5.5 + nexus 1.9.2: Nexus doesn't start and Tomcat doesn't log anything

I installed Tomcat 5.5 (tomcat5.5) and the corrsponding admin package (tomcat5.5-admin) using APT on my Debian Lenny x64 server. I configured the tomcat-users.xml and tomcat came up how I expected. Then I deployed the Nexus 1.9.2 webapp WAR-File using the tomcat-manager webapp. The manager uploaded nexus to tomcat and extracted the files in the webapps directory.

When try to start nexus tomcat tells me on the admin webapp the following:

FAIL - Application at context path /nexus-webapp-1.9.2 could not be started

It read here that I need to create the sonatype-work/ directory under /usr/share/tomcat5.5 and make it accessible to tomcat:

chown tomcat55 /usr/share/tomcat5.5/sonatype-work

I restarted tomcat /etc/init.d/tomcat55 restart but nothing changed. W开发者_StackOverflow社区hen I looked for the tomcat log files I found an empty directory under /var/log/tomcat5.5

Does anyone known what I'm doing wrong?

Check the nexus logs in sonatype work. It won't probably run because your tomcat is old. You will need at least 6 and Java 5 or even 6 to run it. You can do a quick test by downloading Tomcat directly, unzip it and deploy Nexus. This should be proof enough. If this works, you can then run apt to update it.