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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by Daniel Liu <li...@home.com> on 2001/02/17 03:19:44 UTC

How to start tomcat

I have just downlad tomcat.zip and unzip it. After I typed startup on DOS prompter I got the message said
  
You must set JAVA_HOME to point at your Java Development Kit installation

Does anybody know what the message means? I work on NT4.0

RE: How to start tomcat

Posted by Aleksandar Milanovic <am...@galdosinc.com>.

Go to ControlPanel->system->environment and set the environment variable
JAVA_HOME to the location of your JDK installation. All this is explained in
the tomcat documentation. Environment variables are variables that get
passed to programs you run so that they can adjust their behaviour to your
machine's configuration. Some environment variables are defined by the
operating system, some by applications, others by human users. On Win
platform users usually don't have to deal with environment variables unless
they work with cross-platform programs.

thx
Alex
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Daniel Liu [mailto:liu8189@home.com]
  Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 6:20 PM
  To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
  Subject: How to start tomcat


  I have just downlad tomcat.zip and unzip it. After I typed startup on DOS
prompter I got the message said

  You must set JAVA_HOME to point at your Java Development Kit installation

  Does anybody know what the message means? I work on NT4.0