Re: Static deployment of a previously tested-out web application (non compressed files) Dear Good IT Samaritans,
I re-installed all the software applications on my PC, amongst others : ° Windows XP - Home edition - Version 2002 - Service Pack 3 ° jdk-6u7-nb-6_1-windows-ml ° apache-tomcat-5.5.27.zip (from the http://tomcat.apache.org/download-55.cgi site; not from the jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/ site) ° mysql-5.0.67-win32 + a. dozen of plug-ins (proposed automatically) + choosen plug-ins as for XML Environment variables JAVA_HOME and CATALINA_HOME have been set on a classical way to their right respective path values (C:\program files\java\jdk1.6.0_07 and C:\Program Files\apache-tomcat-5.5.27). In NetBeans, I re-installed an existing web application (Java, JSP, servlets, JBeans, SQL, JDBC, XML ...) that I know which was running well on Tomcat before re-installation by simply copying the set of files and folders from the previous installation (static deployment / Same 'Context'). Now in NetBeans, I get the following deployment error at the start of run time : "Starting of Tomcat failed, the C:\Program Files\apache-tomcat-5.5.27\bin\catalina.bat startup script is missing." In the following developers' forums, I did not found the right remedy or advice to me : ° http://www.nabble.com/netbeans-with-external-tomcat-td16531869.html ° http://saloon.javaranch.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=56&t=004230 ° http://www.developpez.net/forums/d500395/java/developpement-web-java/tomcat/pb-debugger-tomcat-sous-netbeans-6-0-a/ So, I discarded and re-installed the NetBeans installation from my the "NetBeans jdk-6u7-nb-6_1-windows-ml.exe" installation file (that I put aside previously - It is not an "installer" file that I downloaded); Without success. Verification of Tools > Servers ... All the settings at the different tabs seem to be OK. Looking to the"Program Files\apache-tomcat-5.5.27\bin" folder (by means of a DOS-shell), I discovered that this installation of Tomcat does not feature a "catalina.bat" file (that NetBeans assumes to activate), hence "missing script". Is it true that this problem could be solved if I re-install (again) Tomcat5 in the root of C: (not under C:\Program Files) ? I wonder if the installation wizard enables to make this choice. Or under D:\ ? Which is the file substituting the catalina.bat file ? In %CATALINA_HOME% directory, isn't it ? How to tell NetBeans to use this file to start up ? Which other version of apache-tomcat-5.5.27.zip file comes with the start and stop batch files ? - - - - - - - - - - - I found the page http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/deployer-howto.html and especially that ... [quote] The locations for Context Descriptors are; 1. $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/context.xml 2. $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/[webappname]/META-INF/context.xml Files in (1) are named [webappname].xml but files in (2) are named context.xml. If a Context Descriptor is not provided for a Context, Tomcat configures the Context using default values. [/quote] I observed that ... ° my '[webappname].xml' is present. This file contains a <Context> tag which, among others, contains a 'docBase' attribute whose value is the path to a [webappname]\build\web directory place which in turn contains the directories - WEB-INF, containing the 'web.xml' contect file - META-INF, containing the 'context.xml' file. ° my 'context.xml' is not present (see above) --> Does Tomcat configure the Context using its default values, or does it make use of the 'context.xml' file in the 'META-INF' directory ? - - - - - - - - - - - Kindly help me out, please. Thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Tomcat5---Error-%3A-catalina.bat-startup-script-is-missing-tp19982722p19982722.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
