Help with starting Tomcat

[Ma...@aol.com]

Hello.  Using Tomcat 3.2.1.  I've set the environment variable for 
TOMCAT_HOME (I think), but I'm not sure how to set the environment variable 
for JAVA_HOME.  My jdk's root directory is installed at the following 
directory on my W98SE platform:  c:\jdk1.3.0_02.  Therefore, this is what I 
did to set the JAVA_HOME environment variable.  At the DOS c:\ prompt, I 
typed:  "c:\set JAVA_HOME=jdk1.3.0_02" then pressed enter.  Then, when I go 
to execute "startup.bat" in the tomcat\bin directory, I get the message 
"invalid command or file".  But, when I'm in Windows Exployer and 
double-click on startup.bat, I get a DOS window message: "You must set 
JAVA_HOME to point at your Java Development Kit installation".  Any help with 
this is greatly appreciated.

Re: Help with starting Tomcat

[Swamy <ss...@qwest.net>]

To set the JAVA_HOME golbally you should put the set in the autoexec.bat file.
Or you could do it in the command prompt as yopu were tring to do. Except add the 'c:\'
set JAVA_HOME=c:\jdk1.3.0_02

And then to run the bat file from the command prompt just type startup - no '.bat'

Good luck,
ss
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ma17151@aol.com 
  To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org 
  Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 2:42 PM
  Subject: Help with starting Tomcat


  Hello.  Using Tomcat 3.2.1.  I've set the environment variable for 
  TOMCAT_HOME (I think), but I'm not sure how to set the environment variable 
  for JAVA_HOME.  My jdk's root directory is installed at the following 
  directory on my W98SE platform:  c:\jdk1.3.0_02.  Therefore, this is what I 
  did to set the JAVA_HOME environment variable.  At the DOS c:\ prompt, I 
  typed:  "c:\set JAVA_HOME=jdk1.3.0_02" then pressed enter.  Then, when I go 
  to execute "startup.bat" in the tomcat\bin directory, I get the message 
  "invalid command or file".  But, when I'm in Windows Exployer and 
  double-click on startup.bat, I get a DOS window message: "You must set 
  JAVA_HOME to point at your Java Development Kit installation".  Any help with 
  this is greatly appreciated.