Problem with Tomcat: says CATALINA_HOME not defined correctly.

[Mel Anisky]

I can't get Tomcat to work. When I run

C:\Users\Mel\Java\tomcat\apache-tomcat-6.0.35\bin\startup.bat

I get the following error:

The CATALINA_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly.

I have CATALINA_HOME defined as %TOMCAT_HOME%
I have TOMCAT_HOME defined as C:\Users\Mel\Java\tomcat\apache-tomcat-6.0.35\

CLASSPATH is C:\Users\Mel\Java\tomcat\apache-tomcat-6.0.35\lib\servlet.jar

The directory for C:\Users\Mel\Java\tomcat\apache-tomcat-6.0.35\ definitely contains bin, and C:\Users\Mel\Java\tomcat\apache-tomcat-6.0.35\bin\ contains startup.bat

What am I doing wrong?

[Jk Robbins]

Try removing that trailing backslash at the end of the path. Then from a command prompt, do a "set" to make sure the environment variable looks the way you expect it to.

[Bear Bibeault]

You shouldn't have CATALINA_HOME defined as anything! All you need to define is JAVA_HOME. The startup scripts take care of the rest.

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

and Welcome to JavaRanch Mel Anisky !