I had the same problem installing Tomcat under Win2000. Be sure that all your environment variables are set properly. I actually created a batch file that sets all my environment variables before I run Tomcat. That solved my problem. Be sure that you have set Java_Home environment under "My Computer". Here's a sample of the batch file (just change the directories to match your environment):
set JAVA_HOME=c:\j2sdk1.4.1 set CATALINA_HOME=D:\tomcat set path=D:\tomcat\bin;c:\j3sdk1.4.1\bin;c:\winnt;c:\winnt\system32;e:\oracle\ora92\bin; set classpath=d:\tomcat\common\lib\mail.jar;d:\tomcat\common\lib\soap.jar;d:\tomcat\common\lib\activation.jar;c:\j2sks1.4.1\lib;d:\tomcat\common\lib\servlet.jar;d:\tomcat\common\lib\classes12.jar;d:\tomcat\server\lib\catalina.jar;d:\tomcat\common\lib\jaxp.jar; Run your batch file then to to d:\tomcat\bin\startup Good lucK! -----Original Message----- From: Giorgio Franceschetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 14:02 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Tomcat doesn't start under Windows XP Shapira, Yoav wrote: >Howdy, > > > >>Fist time I received the message: Cannot Find file >> >> >"-Djava.endorsed.dirs=". > > >>So I spent some time looking into the documentation and I decided to >> >> >set > > >>a new variable JAVA_ENDORSED_DIRS = %CATALINA_HOME%\common\endorsed. >> >> > >You don't need to set this variable yourself: it's set in the tomcat >startup scripts. > > I tryed to set it as an environment variable becouse I couldn't find any place in the script where it was set up. >You got the above effort after simply installing tomcat and trying to >run it? That's very strange. > I simply downloaded the zip file, unzipped it into my directory and tryed to execute the startup.bat (following the instructions into the running.txt). > Can you start tomcat from the Programs Menu rather than the command line? > > > Well, I've made a simply .bat that does what was written into the docs: CD %CATALINA_HOME%\bin startup But even If I try from the command line I've the same result. What do you mean with "from the Programs Menu"? Giorgio --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
