Tomcat 7 Start up errors

[Sunderam Goplalan]

Hello,

My TOMCAT was starting and working fine. Once I deleted the "TOMCAT_HOME/work" directory for a reason and recreated it manually. Under work I also recreated the Catalina/localhost folder manually in windows 7. Since then I was getting various weird start up errors. SO, I reinstalled tomcat 7.0.47 from the tomcat website and tried to start the server, but still I get the same error messages. Any help? note also that I didn't deploy any applications under webapps. The errors below are solely from the applications that come with tomcat out of the box. So there is no room for jar conflicts from WEB-INF etc...

[b]WARNING: Failed to create work directory [C:\NOSCAN\apache-tomcat-7.0.47\work\Ca
talina\localhost\docs] for context [/docs][/b]
Nov 7, 2013 12:40:00 PM org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsSci onStartup
INFO: JSR 356 WebSocket (Java WebSocket 1.0) support is not available when runni
ng on Java 6. To suppress this message, run Tomcat on Java 7, remove the WebSock
et JARs from $CATALINA_HOME/lib or add the WebSocketJARs to the tomcat.util.scan
.DefaultJarScanner.jarsToSkip property in $CATALINA_BASE/conf/catalina.propertie
s. Note that the deprecated Tomcat 7 WebSocket API will be available.
Nov 7, 2013 12:40:00 PM org.apache.jasper.EmbeddedServletOptions <init>
[b]SEVERE: The scratchDir you specified: C:\NOSCAN\apache-tomcat-7.0.47\work\Catali
na\localhost\docs is unusable.[/b]
Nov 7, 2013 12:40:00 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory C:\NOSCAN\apache-tomcat-7.0.47\webapps
\examples
Nov 7, 2013 12:40:00 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext postWorkDirecto
ry
[b]WARNING: Failed to create work directory [C:\NOSCAN\apache-tomcat-7.0.47\work\Ca
talina\localhost\examples] for context [/examples][/b]
Nov 7, 2013 12:40:01 PM org.apache.jasper.EmbeddedServletOptions <init>
SEVERE: The scratchDir you specified: C:\NOSCAN\apache-tomcat-7.0.47\work\Catali
na\localhost\examples is unusable.
Nov 7, 2013 12:40:01 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory C:\NOSCAN\apache-tomcat-7.0.47\webapps
\host-manager
Nov 7, 2013 12:40:01 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext postWorkDirecto
ry
[b]WARNING: Failed to create work directory [C:\NOSCAN\apache-tomcat-7.0.47\work\Ca
talina\localhost\host-manager] for context [/host-manager][/b]
Nov 7, 2013 12:40:01 PM org.apache.jasper.EmbeddedServletOptions <init>
SEVERE: The scratchDir you specified: C:\NOSCAN\apache-tomcat-7.0.47\work\Catali
na\localhost\host-manager is unusable.
Nov 7, 2013 12:40:01 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory C:\NOSCAN\apache-tomcat-7.0.47\webapps
\manager
Nov 7, 2013 12:40:01 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext postWorkDirecto
ry
WARNING: Failed to create work directory [C:\NOSCAN\apache-tomcat-7.0.47\work\Ca
talina\localhost\manager] for context [/manager]
Nov 7, 2013 12:40:01 PM org.apache.jasper.EmbeddedServletOptions <init>

The below errors from the above snippet are of concern.

WARNING: Failed to create work directory [C:\NOSCAN\apache-tomcat-7.0.47\work\Ca
talina\localhost\docs] for context [/docs]
SEVERE: The scratchDir you specified: C:\NOSCAN\apache-tomcat-7.0.47\work\Catali
na\localhost\host-manager is unusable.
WARNING: Failed to create work directory [C:\NOSCAN\apache-tomcat-7.0.47\work\Ca
talina\localhost\manager] for context [/manager]

[Nam Ha Minh]

Maybe your Tomcat doesn't have proper file permissions its need to create/access the directory.
So check permissions of the user who runs Tomcat.

[Tim Holloway]

Yep. That's where my money goes.

You don't need to recreate any subdirectories when you delete the contents of the tomcat work, temp, or log directories. Tomcat will do that if it needs them. All you need is those directories (with PROPER case on the names - 'work', not 'Work') and ensure that the Tomcat user ID can read/write/create/delete in them.

[Sunderam Goplalan]

Thanks. Problem Solved. The issue was related to the "Administrator" privileges in Windows 7. I had to right click the "start.bat" file and select "Run as administrator". Then there were no issues.
However, I do have the Local Admin rights for my user in the machine.