Installing Apache Tomcat

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I have followed this tutorial (http://www.mulesoft.com/tomcat-linux#.URj9weCy1Nh) to install tomcat on debian wheezy using the following environment variables:

Using CATALINA_BASE:   /usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.35
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.35
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.35/temp
Using JRE_HOME:        /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre
Using CLASSPATH:       /usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.35/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/local/apache-   tomcat-7.0.35/bin/tomcat-juli.jar

I have given the tomcat user a bash login and when I run ./startup.sh nothing happens and no port opens. Running version.sh gives me:

 Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/catalina/util/ServerInfo
 Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.catalina.util.ServerInfo
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266)

Could not find the main class: org.apache.catalina.util.ServerInfo. Program will exit.

Any ideas what is missing ?

What happens if you add `/usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.35/lib/` to the classpath? — mellamokb, Feb 11 '13 at 14:24

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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Install complete, Compatible JDK from Oracle (SUN) or IBM
Set your JAVA_HOME environment variable to the root directory of the compatible JDK

$JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_01

$ export JAVA_HOME

Put the compatibale JDK's bin directory on the front of your PATH environment variable.

$ PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

$ export PATH

Find the java executable of the incompatible JDK, usually /usr/bin/java and move it out of the way, like this:

$cd /usr/java

$mv java java.moved

Then, check to make sure your java executable points to the JDK you have installed:

$ which java

/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_01/bin/java

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Feb 11 '13 at 14:49

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I did that but now when I run version.sh I get ./catalina.sh: 506: ./catalina.sh: /usr/java/jdk1.7.0_13/bin/java: not found and it is definitely there... – user1845360 Feb 11 '13 at 15:27
Did you export PATH and JAVA_HOME? – Satish Feb 11 '13 at 15:31
echo $JAVA_HOME /usr/java/jdk1.7.0_13 $ echo $PATH /usr/java/jdk1.7.0_13/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin – user1845360 Feb 11 '13 at 15:33
Run script in debug mode: sh -x ./catalina.sh version – Satish Feb 11 '13 at 15:38
Sorry, it seems that I installed the 32 bit version for my x86_64 machine. I will update later... – user1845360 Feb 11 '13 at 15:43
It should work! with properly installed package!!! – Satish Feb 11 '13 at 15:44
./version.sh gives **Error: Could not find or load main class org.apache.catalina.util.ServerInfo** and java works fine now. – user1845360 Feb 11 '13 at 15:56
By the way, it seems that I do not have **bootstrap.jar** and **tomcat-juli.jar** – user1845360 Feb 11 '13 at 16:01
Here is your answer! http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/setup.html – Satish Feb 11 '13 at 16:18
generally they located inside [Tomcat-base]/bin directory – Satish Feb 11 '13 at 16:23
Using CLASSPATH: /opt/tomcat6.0/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/tomcat6.0/bin/tomcat-juli.jar – Satish Feb 11 '13 at 16:24
I do not get how this solves the problem I still missing the jar files. Building from source with ant gives compile time java error messages. – user1845360 Feb 11 '13 at 16:44
Which tomcat package you are using: I am using http://apache.mirrors.lucidnetworks.net/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.36/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.36.tar.gz and it has those files :) – Satish Feb 12 '13 at 14:31
I was trying to use the source package, the binary one works fine. I just got myself into a nightmare for no reason....Anyway, thanks very much for your suggestions. – user1845360 Feb 13 '13 at 12:55

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