forgot about that dist sub directory... You either need to amend your catalina home to be C:\Jakarta-tomcat-5-bin-20030526\jakarta-tomcat-5\dist or move the contents of that directory up a level to C:\Jakarta-tomcat-5-bin-20030526\jakarta-tomcat-5 and discard the dist directory.
Regards, -- Jason Bainbridge Jason I changed CATALINA_HOME to be C:\Jakarta-tomcat-5-bin-20030526\jakarta-tomcat-5\dist I did C:\> CATALINA_HOME\dist\bin\startup.bat response is "sytsem connot find the file specified" When I go to windows explorer I see that under the directory "dist" bin conf serv temp work common logs shared webapps when I go to windows exploere and look under the bin directory I see bootstrap catalina commons-launcher digest launcher properties setclasspath shutdown startup tool-wrapper cpappend digest lauvher bootstrap starup.sh etc What to do now ? Your assistance is appreciated Stan