Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
>
>> From: arricherekk [mailto:arricher...@hotmail.com]
>> Subject: Tomcat 5.5 service won't start
>>
>> I installed Tomcat 5.5 yesterday, with limited success.
>> It took me until a few hours ago to manage to get all of
>> the ports and such things set correctly, so that everything
>> would run properly.
>
> That's extremely odd, and indicates you're probably changing things you
> shouldn't. Tomcat has always run right out of the box for me, ever since
> I started playing with early 5.0 releases on Windows, Linux, and
> proprietary platforms.
>
> You will probably find it easier, on a Windows system, to download the
> .zip version and run Tomcat with the startup.bat script at first. Once
> you're happy with that, use the service.bat script to create the service,
> if you need to.
>
> Don't change ports, don't put anything in CLASSPATH, don't put the Tomcat
> bin directory in PATH, do set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to point
> to the JDK directory, then start Tomcat. Once you've confirmed that's
> working - including the Tomcat servlet and JSP examples, then add your
> webapp. Only after you're happy with that result should you consider
> modifying server.xml settings for a production-like environment.
>
> Note that you don't install individual servlets into Tomcat, you install
> webapps that are comprised of servlets and JSPs.
>
> - Chuck
>
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Thanks for the reply! I downloaded 5.5.27, and ran startup.bat. I got the
exact same error as before. Any idea what the "Apache Tomcat Native
Library" is? Apparently, it's not finding it, as both logs indicate
something missing. Thanks!
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