problem starting Tomcat 4.1.24

[Rajeev Ravindran]

hi all,
i just now downloaded tomcat4.1.24src.zip...its showing the following error on startup

 
D:\Work\tomcat41\catalina\src\bin>catalina run
Using CATALINA_BASE:   d:\work\tomcat41\catalina\src
Using CATALINA_HOME:   d:\work\tomcat41\catalina\src
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: d:\work\tomcat41\catalina\src\temp
Using JAVA_HOME:       c:\jdk1.3
Exception during startup processing
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.loadClass(StandardClas
sLoader.java:1124)
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.loadClass(StandardClas
sLoader.java:989)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:218)

earlier it was showing some bootstrap error and i copied bootstrap.jar from tomcat4.0 to the bin directory of catalina, that error disspeared and this one came..i extracted the jar files that comes with Tomcat4.1.24 but cldnt find Catalina class file in it, so i copied catalina.jar from Tomcat4.0 and pasted it in the bin of catalina src directory..i copied this jar files in almost all directies one by one as a trail and error method..but all in vain..
cld any1 help me in solving this problem ??
thanks
raj

[Soumendu Munshi]

Is your JAVA_HOME or JAVAHOME environment variable and defined. Check that as it looks from the error it is unable to find some classes.

[Mike Curwen]

Umm... you downloaded tomcat4.1.24src.zip

So did you compile it?

Or would you rather download a binary version?
http://apache.mirrored.ca/jakarta/tomcat-4/binaries/tomcat-4.1.24.exe