Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Tomcat 6 on OSX

I needed to run Tomcat, so I decided to use Tomcat 6 for a change. I got an all too familiar when I tried to start things with catalina start:

The BASEDIR environment variable is not defined correctly

Grrr... I've had this error before, but I couldn't remember at first what the deal was. Then I remembered it... The shells scripts in $CATALINA_HOME/bin aren't executable by default...

cd $CATALINA_HOME/bin
chmod +x *.sh
./catalina.sh start
Using CATALINA_BASE: /Users/michael/dev/apache-tomcat-6.0.13/
Using CATALINA_HOME: /Users/michael/dev/apache-tomcat-6.0.13/
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /Users/michael/dev/apache-tomcat-6.0.13//temp
Using JRE_HOME: /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home

Ahh, much better!
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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:43 AM

    Thanks for the solution. I had the same problem when I tried to install Tomcat 6 on Debian. I was smart to chmod +x the shutdown.sh and startup.sh, but was still dumb to forget about the rest.

    Kenno

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  2. Anonymous2:46 PM

    I had the same problem on Mac OSX - and like you I too forgot. But your post reminded me ;-)

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  3. Anonymous11:23 AM

    Well, this post can still be used... :o)

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