cannot start up my Tomcat

[JJ26]

someone can help me
I got this error when starting up my Tomcat

C:\Tomcat\bin>startup
The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined
This environment variable is needed to run this program
Using CATALINA_BASE:   C:\J2EE_1.4
Using CATALINA_HOME:   C:\J2EE_1.4
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: C:\Tomcat 4\temp
Using JAVA_HOME:
The system cannot find the file -Djava.endorsed.dirs=
C:\Tomcat\bin>

Is it because I'm setting the CATALINA_HOME variable after I install the Tomcat ??

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[flowcontrol]

That's because you haven't set the environmental variables. I would set the JAVA_HOME variable to 'C:\J2EE_1.4'. CATALINA_BASE and CATALINA_HOME should point to the Tomcat installation directory ('C:\Tomcat 4', but it would be safer to use the 8.3 dirname, 'C:\Tomcat~1'. Use dir /x c:\tomcat* to find out exactly what it is). If you read the startup.bat file, you'll see what it's trying to do.

 

[sedj]

Are you using JWSDP ? This uses the java.endorsed.dirs as part of its startup check ... standalone non-Sun packaged Tomcat does not do this check. Which bundled Tomcat package are you using exactly ?

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