ben..............tomcat is not installing

[shashikanth penumadula]

Mr.Ben
i am trying to make the tomcat installation on windows98 operating system(63mb ram).
while tomcat installation:the path it has taken is(by default)
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.0\bin

the path of jvm installed on my system is
C:\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.2

when i open the server by clicking, startup.bat
in
c:\prgram files\apache software foundation\tomcat 5.0\bin
the error i am facing is:
The catalina_home environment variable is not defined correctly
This environment variable is needed to run this program


so i had to install the server to a folder in C drive& the name of it is tomcat5.0
i created a cpath.bat in C:\Tomcat5.0\bin.
The file(cpath.bat) contains
set CATALINA_HOME=C:\Tomcat5.0
set classpath=C:\ProgramFiles\Java\j2re1.4.1\lib;D:\%CATALINA_HOME%\common\lib\servlet-api.jar;d:\%

and in the command window i did.......

C:\Tomcat5.0\bin>cpath

i was shown:

C:\Tomcat5.0\bin>set CATALINA_HOME=C:\Tomcat5.0

C:\Tomcat5.0\bin>set classpath=C:\ProgramFiles\Java\j2re1.4.1\lib;D:\C:\Tomcat5.0\common\lib\servlet-api.jar;d:\

C:\Tomcat5.0\bin>

to start the server i did:

C:\Tomcat5.0\bin>startup

then the error i am facing was:

The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined
This environment variable is needed to run this program
Invalid switch
Using CATALINA_BASE: C:\Tomcat5.0
Using CATALINA_HOME: C:\Tomcat5.0
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: C:\Tomcat5.0\temp
Using JAVA_HOME:
Invalid switch - -DJAVA.ENDORSED.DIRS=

i thought there cud be some installation problem so i reinstalledtomcat5.0 in C drive and also i've installed j2sdk1.4.1 also in c drive. and i've copied the cpath.bat file to tomcat5.0/bin in c drive,which contains
set CATALINA_HOME=C:\Tomcat5.0
set classpath=C:\j2sdk1.4.1\jre\lib;D:\%CATALINA_HOME%\common\lib\servlet-api.jar;d:\%

and in the command window i performed:

C:\Tomcat5.0>cd bin

C:\Tomcat5.0\bin>cpath

and it has shown

C:\Tomcat5.0\bin>set CATALINA_HOME=C:\Tomcat5.0

C:\Tomcat5.0\bin>set classpath=C:\j2sdk1.4.1\jre\lib;D:\%CATALINA_HOME%\common\lib\servlet-api.jar;d:\%

C:\Tomcat5.0\bin>

and then i started

C:\Tomcat5.0\bin>startup

and i got this error:
Out of environment space
Cannot find
This file is needed to run this program


sir,if there are any errors in these steps performed by me.....then plzzzzz reply so that i could install the apache tomcat server at the earliest.
waiting for a reply.if u could find some time to tell me the installation right from the beginning then it would be of great help.

[Ben Souther]

First, you'll need a full Java Software developement kit (JDK) to do any JSP development with Tomcat 5.0x.

I don't know if the EXE version of Tomcat runs on win98. If it does, you should only need to run the installer and make sure that it's looking at the right version of Java.

You may also need to increase the amount of ram available to your application.
Google will help you there.



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[ June 20, 2005: Message edited by: Ben Souther ]

[William Brogden]

Win98 has the notorious problem of allowing too little space for environment variables. Since Tomcat uses a LOT of environment variable space to manipulate things like CATALINA_HOME, you MUST increase the environment space. Unfortunately I have forgotten the details but they have been discussed in this forum before so search for Win98
Bill