I need to install Tomcat 6 for a school assignment. I thought the installation process was easy as counting 123, but it turned out to be a few hours long of head scratching. Well, the first start is to setup a few environment variables as required by Tomcat:
CATALINA_HOME=/home/kenno/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.13 export CATALINA_HOME; export CATALINA_BASE# JAVA_HOME and Path to java, javac JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/j2sdk1.6-sun/bin export JAVA_HOME; export PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${PATH}:.
It can be stored in a setEnv.sh file, and run with source setEnv.sh to load those variables.
Then when I tried to run`` Tomcat with the following command, there was some error with the BASEDIR:
The BASEDIR environment variable is not defined correctly This environment variable is needed to run this program
I wasted a few hours trying to search for solutions on Google, and as when I was about to temporarily give up for dinner, I found an unexpected answer from one of the blogs.
“I need to set all the shell scripts in <strong>$CATALINA_HOME/bin</strong> to be executable”
So let’s fix it:
kenno@kampongcham:~/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.13/bin$ chmod +x *.sh
Finally, it’s done. We can now run tomcat without any errors:
Using CATALINA_BASE: /home/kenno/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.13 Using CATALINA_HOME: /home/kenno/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.13 Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /home/kenno/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.13/temp Using JRE_HOME: /usr/lib/j2sdk1.6-sun/bin
That’s it folks. When you setup Tomcat on your machine, make sure you specify the correct path to all the variables mentioned above.
Thanks to Michael for the solution: Tomcat 6 on OSX