Hi Andy, Thanks very much. I checked just now the script catalina.bat I found the set CATALINA_TMPDIR=%CATALINA_BASE%\tmp
because CATALINA_BASE=C:\Programme\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.30\ so CATALINA_TMPDIR=C:\Programme\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.30\\temp In XP "\\" could not be correctly syntactic interpreted. So I change CATALINA_HOME=C:\Programme\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.30 This problem is fixed. A good weekend! Best Feilong ----- Original Message ----- From: "andy gordon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <users@tomcat.apache.org> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 12:30 PM Subject: Re: Tomcat Startup > I am wondering about that extra slash for your temp directory. could the slash at the end of your base and home be causing tomcat to look for the CONF/server xml in a non-existent place. > > hope this helps > > - andy > > feilong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > My Catalina_Home: C:\Programme\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.30\ > JAVA_HOME: C:\Programme\JBuilderX\jdk1.4 > > > C:\Programme\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.30\bin>catalina run > Using CATALINA_BASE: C:\Programme\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.30\ > Using CATALINA_HOME: C:\Programme\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.30\ > Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: C:\Programme\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.30\\temp > Using JAVA_HOME: C:\Programme\JBuilderX\jdk1.4\ > Can't load server.xml > Can't load server.xml > Oct 28, 2005 10:43:18 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start > INFO: Server startup in 0 ms > java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl. > java:39) > at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces > sorImpl.java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:287) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:425) > Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException > at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.await(Catalina.java:619) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:579) > ... 6 more > > Best > Feilong > > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]