Help with Tomcat installation
Hello,
I downloaded Tomcat 4.1.34 and installed it successfully. But when I try to startup tomcat by clicking startup.bat, I see a window coming up and vanishing immediately. I have no clue why this happens. I tried many times but its the same issue. I checked for the JAVA_HOME and CATALINA_HOME variables setup correctly.
Please help,
Thanks
[369 byte] By [
p_1434a] at [2007-11-26 19:11:42]

# 1
run the startup.bat within the comand line, youll then see a error, which proberly is that you havnt set the JAVA_HOME enviroment varable up correctly, it must point to a JDK and not a JRE. Also if you change these varables a restart of your machine may be a good idea
# 2
That doesnt help.
I entered pause in the startup file and executed in the windows and following is the code where I get a flashing window:
C:\Tomcat\bin>pause
Press any key to continue . . .
C:\Tomcat\bin>rem Execute Java with the applicable properties
C:\Tomcat\bin>if not "" == "" goto doJpda
C:\Tomcat\bin>if not "" == "" goto doSecurity
C:\Tomcat\bin>start "Tomcat" "C:\j2sdk1.4.2_10\bin\java"-Dsun.io.useCanonCach
es=false -Djava.endorsed.dirs="C:\Tomcat\common\endorsed" -classpath "C:\j2sdk1
.4.2_10\lib\tools.jar;C:\Tomcat\bin\bootstrap.jar" -Dcatalina.base="C:\Tomcat" -
Dcatalina.home="C:\Tomcat" -Djava.io.tmpdir="C:\Tomcat\temp" org.apache.catalina
.startup.Bootstrap start
C:\Tomcat\bin>goto end
C:\Tomcat\bin>pause
Please help
# 3
Did you set the JAVA_HOME correctly ?
I think there is a problem there
C:\Tomcat\bin>start "Tomcat" "C:\j2sdk1.4.2_10\bin\java" -Dsun.io.useCanonCach
es=false -Djava.endorsed.dirs="C:\Tomcat\common\endorsed" -classpath "C:\j2sdk1
.4.2_10\lib\tools.jar;C:\Tomcat\bin\bootstrap.jar" -Dcatalina.base="C:\Tomcat" -
Dcatalina.home="C:\Tomcat" -Djava.io.tmpdir="C:\Tomcat\temp" org.apache.catalina
.startup.Bootstrap start
shouldn,t it be C:\j2sdk1.4.2_10\bin