Tomcat

[Claude Cundiff]

Hello everyone!

I'm trying to install Tomcat manually. I've done the following to try to set the environment variables but still getting a message that they are not set.

cd c:\
PATH="C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_10\bin";%PATH%
set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_10
set CLASSPATH=.;C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.16\lib\servlet-api.jar;C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.16\lib\jsp-api.jar;C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.16\lib\el-api.jar;C:\Servlets+JSP;..;..\..
pause

I appreciate it

[Norm Radder]

You probably want to have them set permanently vs doing it manually every time. What OS do you have?
On XP go to Settings|Control Panel|System|Advance|Environment Variables and enter a CLASSPATH, etc entry or add to the existing one.
[ July 03, 2008: Message edited by: Norm Radder ]

[Claude Cundiff]

Vista.

But shouldn't it work regardless?

[Ilari Moilanen]

It should work if you are starting tomcat from the same command prompt (or script) where you have those set commands you listed. If is done in some other command prompt or through double clicking the icon for example then you might run into problems.

[Claude Cundiff]

I have a .bat file with the following:

cd c:\
PATH="C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_10\bin";%PATH%
set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_10
set CLASSPATH=.;C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.16\lib\servlet-api.jar;C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.16\lib\jsp-api.jar;C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.16\lib\el-api.jar;C:\Servlets+JSP;..;..\..
cd apache-tomcat-6.0.16/bin
startup.bat
pause

It doesn't work. It doesn't pause either.

[Ilari Moilanen]

What is the error message you receive?
And it does not pause because the startup.bat probably calls exit or the like in the end and so the pause command is never reached.

[Claude Cundiff]

I went into the "setclasspath.bat" file and put in the location of the jdk.
However, when i try to start Tomcat, I get "Neither the JAVA_HOME..." (see below: this is a snippet of setclasspath.bat)

rem Make sure prerequisite environment variables are set
if not "%JAVA_HOME%" == "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_05" goto gotJdkHome
if not "%JRE_HOME%" == "" goto gotJreHome
echo Neither the JAVA_HOME nor the JRE_HOME environment variable is defined
echo At least one of these environment variable is needed to run this program
goto exit

[Ilari Moilanen]

I'm confused. This line

if not "%JAVA_HOME%" == "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_05" goto gotJdkHome

checks that JAVA_HOME is "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_05" and if it is returns false. Why is that? The original file (the unchanged one) looks like this
rem Make sure prerequisite environment variables are set
if not "%JAVA_HOME%" == "" goto gotJdkHome
if not "%JRE_HOME%" == "" goto gotJreHome
echo Neither the JAVA_HOME nor the JRE_HOME environment variable is defined
echo At least one of these environment variable is needed to run this program
goto exit

and it works fine on my computer... Just tested.

[Claude Cundiff]

got it! Thanks for helping me work through this! This site Rocks!!!