Installing Tomcat 1

[ddrillich]

Good Day,

I just installed tomcat and when trying to start it, I get the following message:

E:\Setup\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.30\bin>startup.bat
The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly
This environment variable is needed to run this program
NB: JAVA_HOME should point to a JDK not a JRE
Using CATALINA_BASE: E:\Setup\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.30
Using CATALINA_HOME: E:\Setup\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.30
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: E:\Setup\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.30\temp
Using JAVA_HOME: C:\bea\jdk131\bin
The system cannot find the file -Djava.endorsed.dirs=.

Any ideas?

Many thanks,
Dan

 

[sedj]

Sometimes the error message actually tells you what is wrong :

The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly
This environment variable is needed to run this program
NB: JAVA_HOME should point to a JDK not a JRE
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So, you need to define your JAVA_HOME environment varibale. You can either add it to the Environment variables via the "Control Panel" thing, or you can set it in your DOS/cmd console before you start Tmocat :

set JAVA_HOME=C:\where\java\lives

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[ddrillich]

Right sedj, but as you can see in the error message the variable already exists and as far as I know it points to the right directory - where the compiler resides.

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Using JAVA_HOME: C:\bea\jdk131\bin
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-- Dan

 

[sedj]

JAVA_HOME should point to C:\bea\jdk131 , not C:\bea\jdk131\bin though

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[ddrillich]

You are absolutely right – thanks!!!

 

[sedj]

Thanks for the star

BTW, you might want to consider upgrading your JDK to 1.5, or at least to 1.4 if at all possible, as 1.3 is pretty old these days ...

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