Hi Steve. Firstly, remove the ; from the JAVA_HOME env variable, it's not needed.
Secondly, as previously mentioned, tomcat shouldn't be in a directory that has spaced in the path. I have in the past seen applications install themselves in directories like this, and then fail to run... makes for a more interesting time. Move all the contents of the tomcat folder into another one (eg c:\tomcat ), and then try again. The other option is to download the binary release zip file from http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/release/v4.1.12/bin/ jakarta-tomcat-4.1.12.zip and simply unzip it into a directory, rather than using the .exe version, I have had trouble with them in the past and do not recommend them to anyone. It should work straight away. Gary. -----Original Message----- From: Steven Burrus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 30 September 2002 16:50 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Need Help ASAP w. Tomcat install! I am STILL having or encountering no success whatsoever in getting Tomcat 4.1 up and running!!! Here is the whole error msg., in its' entirety, in DOS when I tried/attempted to activate it: "C:\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1\bin>startup The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined correct This environment variable is needed to run this program Using CATALINA_BASE: .. Using CATALINA_HOME: .. Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: ..\temp Using JAVA_HOME: C:\j2sdk1.4.0; The system cannot find the file -Djava.endorsed.dirs=." Now, what specifically is wrong with the particular way in which I have set the JAVA_HOME environment variable anyway?? Can someone help me out?! ************************************************************************ ************ --- Steven Burrus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lance, this is Steve Burrus, and I appreciate your attempt to help me. You say > that there should be no spaces in the dir. structure to tomcat, but the tomcat > 4.1 > installation folder is in the apache group (1 space) folder!! How do I niftily > "work around" this problem anyway?! > ************************************************************************ *********** > > --- Lance Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Steven, > > Couple of things to try, no spaces in the directory structure to Tomcat. > > Don't set any env vars except JAVA_HOME which should point to the base > > directory of you're jdk. > > Run startup.bat in the bin directory of Tomcat from the command line. > > Once the command line works then start working on the short cuts to start > > and stop Tomcat. > > Lance Smith > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Steven Burrus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 12:34 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Need Help ASAP w. Tomcat install! > > > > > > Hello all, I need some pretty urgent help/assistance with installing > > tomcat!!! I > > am trying, specifically, to install the version 4.1.12 of it. I keep on > > getting a > > damned error message when I try to start it up in DOS saying that the > > CATALINA_HOME environment variable is either not properly set OR is just > > flat > > missing altogether!!! I still don't know whether to leave in or not the > > semicolon > > (;) at the end of each variable in the System applet!! > > > > I started out with having it in without any success whatsoever, and then > > tried > > leaving it out, still without any success. I am going absolutely "crazy" in > > trying > > to do this thing right, lemme tell u. I beleive that I got Tomcat configured > > properly, the correct way a long time ago--several months ago. And, that > > time had > > to have been due to me just flat "lucking out" and dumbly "stumbling into" > > the > > right way to get tomcat going. I apologize in advance to anyone in our > > newsgroup > > who thinks that they perceive that I have made this same kind of a posting > > in the > > past, and probably more than once too. I am really not at all as smart and > > intelligent as I perceive many others on our group seem to be, I am afraid > > to > > say.To whoever responds back to me, I would appreciate it if you could send > > me all > > of the environment variables needed to configure Tomcat. 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