Not able to start Tomcat

[Shikha Dhawan]

Hi,


I'm using Windows 7 64 bit machine & having Java 1.6.

I am not able to start tomcat. I just downloaded the tomcat, unzipped the file & set the environment variables.

When I run startup.bat from command prompt, it shows the following on my command prompt:


C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.23\bin>startup.bat
Using CATALINA_BASE: "C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.23\"
Using CATALINA_HOME: "C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.23\"
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: "C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.23\\temp"
Using JRE_HOME: "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_25\"
Using CLASSPATH: "C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.23\\bin\bootstrap.jar;C:\apache-tom
cat-7.0.23\\bin\tomcat-juli.jar"

The Tomcat window opens for a few milliseconds n get closed. No information is being logged.

Please guide me. I am not able to figure out whats missing. Let me know if any other information is required.

[Mary Chellapa]

Hi Shikha,

this may help
http://www.coreservlets.com/Apache-Tomcat-Tutorial/tomcat-7-with-eclipse.html

[William Brogden]

The information you need is in the window that opened and then closed when an error was thrown.

Change the last executable line of startup bat to use "run" instead of "start" - this will execute the catalina.bat in the same window so you can see the error.

Bill

[Shikha Dhawan]

William Brogden wrote:The information you need is in the window that opened and then closed when an error was thrown.

Change the last executable line of startup bat to use "run" instead of "start" - this will execute the catalina.bat in the same window so you can see the error.

Bill

Hi Bill,

Thanks

I changed the exectable's last statement.

Got the following information:
java.util.logging.ErrorManager: 4: Unable to create [C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.23" -D
catalina.home=C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.23"\logs]
java.util.logging.ErrorManager: 4: Unable to create [C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.23" -D
catalina.home=C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.23"\logs]
java.util.logging.ErrorManager: 4: Unable to create [C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.23" -D
catalina.home=C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.23"\logs]
java.util.logging.ErrorManager: 4: Unable to create [C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.23" -D
catalina.home=C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.23"\logs]
Jan 21, 2012 11:09:59 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap initClassLoaders
SEVERE: Class loader creation threw exception
java.io.IOException: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is inc
orrect
at java.io.WinNTFileSystem.canonicalize0(Native Method)
at java.io.Win32FileSystem.canonicalize(Win32FileSystem.java:396)
at java.io.File.getCanonicalPath(File.java:559)
at java.io.File.getCanonicalFile(File.java:583)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory.createClassLoader(Clas
sLoaderFactory.java:171)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.createClassLoader(Bootstrap.jav
a:150)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.initClassLoaders(Bootstrap.java
:91)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:227)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:425)

Issue was CATALINA_HOME was set to C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.23\bin & not to C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.23.

Thanks.

//Shikha