Help setting up Tomcat 4 w/ Apache 2

Well i got it setup, and it runs, BUT

it wont compile anything. I get an exception thrown saying unable to compile and a classname.

I looked at the tomcat window and it says can not find
com.sun.javac.Main
JAVA_HOME might not point to the JDK, but
JAVA_HOME is set to
c:\j2sdk1.4.1_01
where my jdk.

i even tried setting JAVA_HOME to c:\j2sdk1.4.1_01\bin

Any ideas on this?


EDIT: Ok Servlets are working fine. Well those that came with the examples are working (were they precompiled??)

But no JSP pages work.

Here is the exact error i get

I could swear I've run into this before, but specifics are escaping me right now.

How is your classpath set? I think you need the tools.jar file in there in order to compile stuff.

Also, I seem to remember the Tomcat 4.1 install figuring all that stuff out for itself... Maybe I was just lucky.

i tired
CLASSPATH C:\j2sdk1.4.1_01\lib
and
CLASSPATH C:\j2sdk1.4.1_01

neither worked.

I have JAVA_HOME set I have CATALINA_HOME set

JAVA_HOME c:\j2sdk1.4.1_01

CATALINA_HOME c:\Program Files\Apache Group\Tomcat 4

i cant figure out whats wrong?


reading the error from the Tomcat server screen it says basically can not find tools.javac.Main in classpath but its set..

Oh well ill keep trucking.

OK NOW i am even more confused I just decided to run tomcat

by using catalina.bat run

and IT WORKS!!!!

but their start tomcat link it created doesnt work.. Now im confused and the next step is to figure out how to start tomcat so the command window isnt there.

oh well..

The only way to get rid of the command window (as far as I know) is to run it as a service.

yah i gotta figure out how to get this to work. I have it as a service but it starts and stops. No idea why..

Well, I just did a fresh install with jdk 1.4.0 and Tomcat 4.1.

I don't have any environment variables set, and I have the jdk installed on my D: drive.

The setup found the jdk, asked me what I wanted to install (nt service, etc.), and where I wanted to install it (D:, again). It installed, started the service, and now http://localhost:8080/index.jsp has some info about jakarta apache tomcat etc.

So, my recommendation to you (since this has been taking forever ), is to uninstall tomcat, java, etc. Install the 1.4.x jdk. Grab the latest windows binary for tomcat at http://mirrors.theonlinerecordstore...mcat-4.1.18.exe and install. It should go seemlessly .

advice taken will do after i get back from india in 3 weeks

Ahhhh, man. But that's, like, practically forever!

Let me know how it goes.

I ran into exactly the same problem

My conclusions are that, the default installation of the Service done by the installer is incorrect, there must be a missing parameter.

What I did is that, I stopped the Service, wich was displayed as Apache Tomcat 4.1 on my win2k Pro machine

then, I ran the startup.bat file, and everything ran just fine, so I tought maybe the service was not installed correctly

well, Then, I ran the shutdown.bat file, and started the Service, everything ran fine, except for the Add User Database option in the Administration web interface for tomcat, so I suppossed some parameter was not working

what I did is that I run the uninstall method of the tomcat.exe to delete the apache tomcat 4.1 service, as this with the command line, I was located at the bin directory of the tomcat installation



Then I typed manually, well, I did not really type it, I did a copy paste from a URL I found through a google search at https://instruct.unc.edu/wcb/school...essages/11.html

The trick is that everything has to be in one line, (with quotes and everything, as it is here bellow)



The new service is now named Tomcat, and everything runs just fine.

I am happy at last !!!!

Happy coding