Jason,
Thanks for the detail on the installation. I mentioned in a separate response within this thread that once JAVA_HOME was corrected (referencing the parent of the 1.5 JDK and not the public or private JRE) then the startup.bat method worked fine in the default installation directory the binary installer started (C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.5...). So it appears Tomcat will start up with the correct JAVA_HOME (JDK, not JRE.) However, I still cannot run the Installer successfully, nor will the service.bat install tomcat as a service. Some lingering Windows execution and/or security issues is probably the best guess at this point. I know SP2 for Windows XP made extensive changes, along with the stream of security patches since then. If anyone uncovers such a security issue or the fix, please post, and I'll do the same if I discover it. I'd like to get the service portion ironed out, but in the meantime I can at least get Tomcat started for some development and evaluation. Thx, Steve -----Jason Bainbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ----- To: Tomcat Users List <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org> From: Jason Bainbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2005-03-01 02:10PM Subject: Re: Installation problems on Windows On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:16:14 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Yes, those are the path(s) I've used... including \bin in the path, and > using the immediate parent directory of the \bin for JAVA_HOME. The > following JREs and JDKs have been tried. Also, I've tried pointing the path > and JAVA_HOME at the JRE, and the JDK for each version. Okay lets go back to basics. 1. Install JDK 1.5 2. set JAVA_HOME to the base directoty of the above install something like C:\JDK1.5.0_01 3. You do not need CLASSPATH set nor does java need to be in the PATH, JAVA_HOME is the only variable that is expressly needed, in a default setup the setting of CATALINA_HOME can safely be done by Tomcat as it starts based on the current directory. In fact having these set especially the CLASSPATH could cause problems. 4. Download 5.5.7.zip and from http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_tomcat-5.cgi 5. Extract jakarta-tomcat-5.5.7.zip to C:\ 6. Open a new command prompt (must be a new one to ensure the latest environment variables are used. 7. navigate to C:\jakarta-tomcat-5.5.7\bin then run startup.bat 8. what happens? Regards, -- Jason Bainbridge http://kde.org- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal Site - http://jasonbainbridge.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
