Unable to start Tomcat 5.5 in Windows XP

[Abu Saleh]

I am trying to run tomcat 5.5. I have used the zipped installation. I set up the path to the JDK and copied the JAR files from the common/lib o JDK.


I got the following in the catalina.log

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Mar 1, 2011 11:40:06 AM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init
INFO: Loaded APR based Apache Tomcat Native library 1.1.20.
Mar 1, 2011 11:40:06 AM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init
INFO: APR capabilities: IPv6 [true], sendfile [true], accept filters [false], random [true].
Mar 1, 2011 11:40:06 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Mar 1, 2011 11:40:06 AM org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpAprProtocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote AJP/1.3 on ajp-8009
Mar 1, 2011 11:40:06 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 921 ms
Mar 1, 2011 11:40:22 AM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init
INFO: Loaded APR based Apache Tomcat Native library 1.1.20.
Mar 1, 2011 11:40:22 AM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init
INFO: APR capabilities: IPv6 [true], sendfile [true], accept filters [false], random [true].
Mar 1, 2011 11:40:22 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Mar 1, 2011 11:40:22 AM org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpAprProtocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote AJP/1.3 on ajp-8009
Mar 1, 2011 11:40:22 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 484 ms
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The server does not seem to be starting for some reason.

Any Ideas !

[William Brogden]

1. Exactly how are you trying to start Tomcat? From a Command Prompt Window with start.bat?

2. Why are you sure Tomcat is not running? That log shows Tomcat starting.

Bill

[Abu Saleh]

William Brogden wrote:1. Exactly how are you trying to start Tomcat? From a Command Prompt Window with start.bat?

2. Why are you sure Tomcat is not running? That log shows Tomcat starting.

Bill

I am trying to start it using the command prompt using startup.bat. I checked http://localhost:8080/ to see if it is running or not. The log above shows the initialization process only. When tomcat actually starts and listens to the 8080 port there are usually more entries in the log file.

Duhai

[Sunny Bhandari]

1) Have you modified the server configuration in any way?
2) Do you see any exception in the log file when server is starting up?

[Mike Lashes]

I had the exact same problem today; funny thing is both tomcat 6 and 7 work fine on my machine.

I have no idea why, but 5.5 comes with APR native libraries - I removed the .dll tcnative-1 from the bin directory, and it stopped using APR and works fine.

HTH.