Hello, This end of life now. I put one complete day in it but didn't succeed. Now please, please, please help me out. When I run it like c:\tomcat\jakarta-tomcat\bin\tomcat run, it gives me this.... Using CLASSPATH: C:\tomcat\jakarta-tomcat\classes Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: \lib\tools/jar When I run it like :\tomcat\jakarta-tomcat\bin\startup, it gives me this... Using CLASSPATH:C:\tomcat\jakarta-tomcat\classes;C:\JDK1.3\lib\tools.jar Starting tomcat in new window. But when I type http://localhost:8080/, windows dialog box appears to ask "connect to internet?" While here is my autoexec.bat path=c:\jdk1.3\bin;c:\windows;c:\windows\command set JAVA_HOME=C:\JDK1.3 set TOMCAT_HOME=C:\tomcat\jakarta-tomcat set ANT_HOME=C:\tomcat\jakarta-tomcat Please help.... One more thing, I saw in some thread that somebody had a problem of xml.jar. I also don't have xml.jar. Is it a problem. Tanveer