I discovered that the environmental variable %OS% is set to 'WINNT' on my
Win2000 PC. The Tomcat.bat script is looking for %OS% ='windows_NT' so it
bypassed any NT specific settings. I still have other errors to deal with but
at least I am past this problem.
Thanks for everyone's help.
Steve
pero wrote:
> the error I thought of would appear if both %_STARTJAVA% AND %TOMCAT_OPTS%
> were empty.
> One thing that came into my mind: Does the path you installed your JDK to
> contain spaces? (i.e. c:/program files/javasoft...)
> What does your JAVA_HOME say?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve Heller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 11:32 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Tomcat startup problem
> >
> >
> > pero,
> >
> > I need to try a few things but %TOMCAT_OPTS% appears to be empty
> > although I
> > think that it is the same under the Win95 version. I am using
> > the Startup.bat
> > file which calls tomcat.bat. startup.bat is the same under Win95
> > and Win2000.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > pero wrote:
> >
> > > are you sure that %_STARTJAVA% and %TOMCAT_OPTS% are filled?
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Steve Heller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 10:56 PM
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: Tomcat startup problem
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I recently upgraded my PC from Windows 95 to Windows 2000. A Tomcat
> > > > server and an application were working on the Win95 PC.
> > After upgrading
> > > > to Win2000, I installed the jdk, copied the jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1
> > > > directories and files to the PC and set up environmental variables. I
> > > > am getting this error message when trying to start Tomcat
> > under Win2000.
> > > >
> > > > "Cannot find the file '-Dtomcat.home=c:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1'
> > (or one of
> > > > its components). Make sure the path and filename are correct and that
> > > > all required libraries are available."
> > > >
> > > > The line being executed at error time is in Tomcat.bat in section
> > > > :startServer.
> > > > %_STARTJAVA% %TOMCAT_OPTS% -Dtomcat.home="%TOMCAT_HOME%"
> > > > org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
> > > >
> > > > I looked through the Tomcat user and developer mail lists and
> > could not
> > > > find a similar problem. I've also checked the environmental variables
> > > > for classpath, tomcat_home, java_home and they all seem to be fine.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone know what is causing this error and/or a solution?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for your help.
> > > >
> > > > Steve
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> >
