I just did a fresh install of Apache 5.5.23. I have defined ANT_HOME=c:\ant CATALINA_HOME=c:\apache-tomcat-5.5.23 JAVA_HOME=c:\java\jdk1.5.0_11 JRE_HOME=%JAVA_HOME%\jre PATH=%JAVA_HOME%\bin;%ANT_HOME%\bin;%CATALINA_HOME%\bin My application is in %CATALINA_HOME%\webapps\fs as an exploded directory structure. I have 2 questions. 1) How do I run the "fs" application? If I go to the %CATALINA_HOME%\bin directory and run startup does it run ALL webapps in the webapps directory? 2) If I run startup.bat in #1 above, I get the following exception and do not know what it is. SEVERE: Begin event threw error java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/naming/TransactionRef at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.<init>(StandardServer.java:83) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:494) at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:350) at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:303) at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.ObjectCreateRule.begin(ObjectCreateRule.java:206) at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Rule.begin(Rule.java:153) at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.startElement(Digester.java:1276) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(AbstractSAXParser.java:533) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.startElement(XMLDTDValidator.java:798) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:878) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$ContentDispatcher.scanRootElementHook(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:1157) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1794) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:368) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:834) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:764) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:148) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1242) at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1562) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:490) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:524) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:267) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:432) - Mike
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