Problem running Tomcat 5.5.9 on OS X Tiger

[Unnsse Khan]

Hello again

I just downloaded Tomcat 5.5.9 onto my G4 PowerBook running OS X Tiger. I am using the JDK 1.5.0 as my JAVA_HOME.

This is what my .bash_profile looks like:

JAVA_HOME="/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home"; 
J2EE_HOME="/Developer/JavaTools/j2sdkee1.3.1";
J2ME_HOME="/Developer/JavaTools/j2me_wireless_toolkit2.2";
CATALINA_HOME="/Developer/JavaTools/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9";
CLASSPATH=.:"$J2EE_HOME/lib/j2ee.jar":"$CATALINA_HOME/common/lib/servlet-api.jar":"$CATALINA_HOME/common/lib/jsp-api.jar":"/Developer/Database/hsqldb/lib/hsqldb.jar";
PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$J2EE_HOME/bin:$J2ME_HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin;
VIMRUNTIME="/Applications/Vim.app/runtime";
export JAVA_HOME J2ME_HOME J2EE_HOME CATALINA_HOME PATH VIMRUNTIME bash 

When I cd into the $CATALINA_HOME/bin directory and I receive the following error message:

Raven:/Developer/JavaTools/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/bin untz$ sh startup.sh
Cannot find ./catalina.sh
This file is needed to run this program
  

Now when I do a ls -al, one can clearly see that this file exists:

 
Raven:/Developer/JavaTools/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/bin untz$ sh startup.sh
Cannot find ./catalina.sh
This file is needed to run this program
Raven:/Developer/JavaTools/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/bin untz$ ls -al
total 904
drwxr-xr-x   25 untz  admin     850 Mar 26 14:23 .
drwxr-xr-x   16 untz  admin     544 Jun  4 19:46 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 untz  admin   22547 Mar 26 14:22 bootstrap.jar
-rw-r--r--    1 untz  admin    7684 Mar 26 14:22 catalina.bat
-rw-r--r--    1 untz  admin   10921 Mar 26 14:22 catalina.sh
-rw-r--r--    1 untz  admin    9386 Mar 26 14:22 commons-daemon.jar
-rw-r--r--    1 untz  admin   26202 Mar 26 14:22 commons-logging-api.jar
-rw-r--r--    1 untz  admin     511 Mar 26 14:22 cpappend.bat
-rw-r--r--    1 untz  admin    1284 Mar 26 14:22 digest.bat
-rw-r--r--    1 untz  admin     848 Mar 26 14:22 digest.sh
-rw-r--r--    1 untz  admin   73008 Mar 26 14:22 jsvc.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 untz  admin    3956 Mar 26 14:22 service.bat
-rw-r--r--    1 untz  admin    2013 Mar 26 14:22 setclasspath.bat
-rw-r--r--    1 untz  admin    2788 Mar 26 14:22 setclasspath.sh
-rw-r--r--    1 untz  admin    1273 Mar 26 14:22 shutdown.bat
-rw-r--r--    1 untz  admin     787 Mar 26 14:22 shutdown.sh
-rw-r--r--    1 untz  admin    1274 Mar 26 14:22 startup.bat
-rw-r--r--    1 untz  admin    1141 Mar 26 14:22 startup.sh
-rw-r--r--    1 untz  admin   12104 Mar 26 14:22 tomcat-juli.jar
-rw-r--r--    1 untz  admin  102400 Mar 26 14:23 tomcat5.exe
-rw-r--r--    1 untz  admin  131072 Mar 26 14:23 tomcat5w.exe
-rw-r--r--    1 untz  admin    2235 Mar 26 14:22 tool-wrapper.bat
-rw-r--r--    1 untz  admin    2549 Mar 26 14:22 tool-wrapper.sh
-rw-r--r--    1 untz  admin    1280 Mar 26 14:22 version.bat
-rw-r--r--    1 untz  admin     790 Mar 26 14:22 version.sh

What am I possibly doing wrong?

With thanks!

[Bear Bibeault]

sh startup.sh

Don't run the script using sh. This launches a new process whose working directory is the home folder of the process owner.

Just execute the script directly:

./startup.sh
  

[Rene Larsen]

and I think that you need to make all *.sh scripts executeble

try "chmod 755 *.sh" in a Terminal window in the bin folder and "./startup.sh" to start tomcat

Rene

[Unnsse Khan]

Bear & Rene,

Thanks guys! This actually worked... I posted a earlier post on the JSP forum that I was having difficulty compiling a JSP file with Subversion on my OS X Tiger. Well, I think that its because that the particular version (5.0.28) of Tomcat which I was using didn't support JDK 1.5 (it even says on the jakarta.tomcat.org URL that Tomcat 5.5.9 is the one that is expected to be used for JDK 1.5) and also conflicted with a dynamic library in Subversion.

Well, now Subversion 1.2.0, JDK 1.5, and Tomcat 5.5.9 are fully operational on my PowerBook!

Also, for some odd reason, the sh startup.sh does work! I can start or shutdown tomcat by using sh or ./

What's weird is that the war file from my project actually did work on my WinXP machine running JDK 1.5 and Tomcat 5.0.19.

Thanks for chmod advice...

With thanks!