2011/3/15 Olivier Lefevre <lefev...@yahoo.com>: > On 3/15/2011 4:56 PM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >> >> You have a *server* JVM installed on Windows XP? Want to verify that? > > Like I said, $JAVA_HOME/bin/server/jvm.dll is there. I did nothing > special: I just ran the installer.
> --Jvm "C:\Programme\Java\jre6\bin\server\jvm.dll" JAVA_HOME should point to a JDK, not to a JRE. Windows versions of JDK do have server JVM, while JREs do not. > Service or not it is apparently looking for a number of its files > under the start dir because if it is not set I get > > $ $CATALINA_HOME/bin/tomcat7 //TS//Tomcat7 --LogLevel=DEBUG > Mar 15, 2011 5:48:59 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory > validateFile > WARNING: Problem with directory [C:\work\tomcat\lib], exists: [false], > isDirectory: [false], canRead: [false] > Mar 15, 2011 5:48:59 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory > validateFile > WARNING: Problem with directory [C:\work\tomcat\lib], exists: [false], > isDirectory: [false], canRead: [false] You failed to define catalina.home and catalina.base JVM system properties. That has nothing to do with --StartPath. Though when those are not set, Tomcat tries to guess their values. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org