RE: Tomcat won't start - Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoC lassDefFoundError: org/apache/tomcat/startup/Tomcat

[Steven Maring <St...@trcinc.com>]

I encountered this error when I tried to use the pre-compiled version.  I
never could figure out where the Tomcat classes were.  If you get the source
and compile it yourself, you should end up with a $TOMCAT_HOME/classes
directory that contains all the Tomcat classes.  Just stick that in your
CLASSPATH and away you go.   :-)


-----Original Message-----
From: David Stack
To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
Sent: 4/5/00 3:53 AM
Subject: Tomcat won't start - Exception in thread "main"
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/tomcat/startup/Tomcat

Hello,

I am trying to get Tomcat v3.1_beta_1 started on Linux Red Hat 6.0.
I have java version "1.2.2" installed also.

When I run 'startup.sh' or 'tomcat.sh start' I get the following error:

>> root /usr/local/tomcat/bin>Exception in thread "main" >>
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/tomcat/startup/Tomcat

This is driving me nuts!  So I read some old posts in the mailing list
archive and they talk about setting the environmental variables might
fix
the problem.
So I tried that, and it didn't do anything!  

Here is part of my .bash_profile that i tried:

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
CLASSPATH=/usr/local/jdk/jre/lib/
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/jdk/jre/lib/
TOMCAT_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat
JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk

ENV=$HOME/.bashrc
USERNAME="root"

export USERNAME ENV PATH CLASSPATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH TOMCAT_HOME JAVA_HOME


Could someone be so kind as to tell me why I am having an impossible
time
getting Tomcat started?   I am sure it is something very simple that I
am
not doing.

Thanks you very much!

Dave


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