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Help!  Tomcat Error message - environment variables

Asked by kataragon in Apache Web Server

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Help!  I'm a microsoft girl and I'm not very familiar with this stuff!  I'm trying to get tomcat running on my IIS 5/Windows 2000 server.  The files for this were written by someone else and  have been moved from another server, where they were working, so I'm inclined to believe the code is just fine -- unless something changed in the folder structure or elsewhere between versions -- I notice servlet.jar seems to be missing and instead there is servlet-api.jar.

The version on the old server was 4.1.12 -- though I've tried reverting to the old version on the new server and still get the same error message.  I think it is something very basic -- env vars that I haven't set -- but I'm not sure what they should be.

I ran j2sdk-1_4_2_01-windows-i586-iftw.exe and then jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12.exe.

Unfortunately, something strange happened and I thought this worked the first time (maybe somehow it was still pointing at the old server, I don't know) so I thought it was working and let the old server get re-installed, so I don't have the old environment variables to compare.  =/

Can you clear this up for me?  What env vars do I have to set?  CATALINA_HOME?  JAVA_HOME?  Anything else?  What should I point classpath/path to?

Here's another question -- do I have to put the whole jar file and everything in the env vars, or can I just point them to the folder?  And, does tomcat care about a / on the end in the env vars?  (JAVA_HOME = c:\j2sdk1.4.2_01 or c:\j2sdk1.4.2_01\ ?)

Also -- the hello world examples ARE working.  The author of the code has a folder for mypackagename and it seems its the files in there having issues -- like the package thing might be causing problems??

Anyways, let me know if I can answer any more questions, I appreciate all your help since this is not my area of specialty.  Here is the error message I get.  (Jeez, I hope it's something simple...)


HTTP Status 404 - /mywebname/servlet/mypackagename.myfile
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type Status report
message /mywebname/servlet/mypackagename.myfile
description The requested resource (/mywebname/servlet/mypackagename.myfile) is not available.
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