Problems with installing Tomcat

[Femi Alla]

Greetings everyone,
I'm currently learning J2EE, Servlets etc, but have a problem installing the jakarta-tomcat-4.0.1.exe that came with the CD that accompanied the Java 2 certification study guide. whenever I double click on it, the typical installation screen appears (only that this one is red and not blue) with Apache Tomcat 4.0 as the title it tells me "Couldn't find a Java Development Kit installed on this computer. Please download one from http;//java.sun.com" as an error message. But I have installed, the J2sdk1.4.0-beta3 (thinking the .exe file had a problem with the -beta in this name, I installed the jsdk1.4 and got the same result,it's now uninstaled),j2sdkee1.3.1, jakarta-ant-1.4.1 and Oracle JDeveloper.
Other information that could be of help s that I run windows ME and , .exe file is 6.75MB and copying the file from the CD to C: and attempting to instal from c: yeilds the same result.
I would be immensly grateful if someone could tell me what's wrong? What is the .exe file looking for that it can't find?
Any useful suggestions are welcome.
Thanks.

[William Brogden]

I don't know what the installer is looking for, probably something in your registry or PATH. Anyway you could download Tomcat as a zip file from jakarata.apache.org and install it yourself.
It occurs to me as I write this that if your SDK is installed in c:\program files or another path with a space in it that the installer may be choking on the space.
Bill

[achana chan]

Hi.
Might be the CLASSPATH ?
Post you /etc/profile.

[Mike Curwen]

Moved from Servlets -> Apache/Tomcat

[Philip Shanks]

I haven't had any problems with this installation, but I have the habit of always setting the environment variable "JDK_HOME" to the J2SE installation directory first.
You might want to try downloading the latest stable version of Tomcat (v 4.1.12) from jakarta.apache.org, as I found that cleared up a different problem I was having. It was a very clean install on both Win2K workstation and Win2K server.
On the workstation I even got it to recognize my BEA JRockit JVM -- IMHO, a bit faster than the Sun or IBM JVM's on Wintel platforms.
Oh, yeah... re-reading Bill Brogden's post reminded me that I ALWAYS install the JDK at the root of the partition... like "C:\j2sdk1.4.0_02"
PCS
[ November 06, 2002: Message edited by: Philip Shanks ]

[Femi Alla]

Hello everyone,
Thanks so much for your responses.
Here's what my path no looks like:
C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\BORLAN~1\BIN;C:\j2sdk1.4.0-beta3\bin;.;C:\j2sdk1.4.0-beta3\jre\lib\rt.jar;j2sdkee1.3.1\bin;jakarta-ant-1.4.1\bin

I thought of downloading another one and installing but that's not going to be easy at all as I have no internet access
at home and only take diskettes to the cyber cafe which the tomcat wouldn't fit into.
I think this might come in helpful too, on the CD, there are two files in the tomcat directory (located at D:\web_app_servers\tomcat),
one is named webapp-module-1.0-tc40-windows.zip (a zip file) and the other jakarta-tomcat-4.0.1.exe, the latter is the
one we are talkning about there.
Just out of curiousity, is this the William Brogden whose mock exams I had to study before taking the certification exams?
Thanks.