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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by th...@scaleon.de on 2003/05/16 11:38:40 UTC

Tomcat Startup problem

Hello,

I installed tomcat 4.1.24 and j2sdk-1.4.1_02-fcs both as rpms under RH 7.3
Linux.
After some adjusting of file permissions due to "permission denied" errors when
starting up Tomcat, these messages disappeared but Tomcat still won't start.
In /var/tomcat4/logs/catalina.out it says

Exception during startup processing java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina
at org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Unknown Source)

These are the settings of ENV-Vars when starting Tomcat:

su - tomcat4 -c "/usr/bin/dtomcat4 start"
Using CATALINA_BASE: /var/tomcat4
Using CATALINA_HOME: /var/tomcat4
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /var/tomcat4/temp
Using JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/java
Using CLASSPATH: /usr/lib/java/lib/tools.jar:/var/tomcat4/bin/bootstrap.jar

If anyone could give me a hint, I would be very thankful!

Thanks!

Thomas




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Re: Tomcat Startup problem

Posted by Kwok Peng Tuck <pe...@makmal.net>.
I don't remember pointing JAVA_HOME over in /usr/lib.

The directory should be here: /usr/java/[java version over here]
The variable JAVA_HOME can be set in  tomcat4.conf  .
See tomcat4.conf for more configuration options.


thomas.emde@scaleon.de wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I installed tomcat 4.1.24 and j2sdk-1.4.1_02-fcs both as rpms under RH 7.3
>Linux.
>After some adjusting of file permissions due to "permission denied" errors when
>starting up Tomcat, these messages disappeared but Tomcat still won't start.
>In /var/tomcat4/logs/catalina.out it says
>
>Exception during startup processing java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
>org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina
>at org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
>at org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
>at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Unknown Source)
>
>These are the settings of ENV-Vars when starting Tomcat:
>
>su - tomcat4 -c "/usr/bin/dtomcat4 start"
>Using CATALINA_BASE: /var/tomcat4
>Using CATALINA_HOME: /var/tomcat4
>Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /var/tomcat4/temp
>Using JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/java
>Using CLASSPATH: /usr/lib/java/lib/tools.jar:/var/tomcat4/bin/bootstrap.jar
>
>If anyone could give me a hint, I would be very thankful!
>
>Thanks!
>
>Thomas
>
>
>
>
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