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How do you setup Tomcat 3.2.3 on Win98?

843833Sep 12 2001 — edited Oct 28 2001
I've recently installed Tomcat 3.2.3 on my computer (O/S is Win98) and I cannot get Tomcat to start.

When I click the startup.bat a DOS window would appear saying "Bad command or file name."
Further, when I click Tomcat.bat I get "Unable to locate servlet.jar. Check the value of TOMCAT_Home."

I have modified my autoexec.bat to set the classpath TOMCAT_HOME and JAVA_HOME as indicated below (I got these ideas from this discussion forum):

@ECHO OFF
PATH=c:\windows;c:\windows\command;c:\ibmtools;c:\
SET PATH="c:\IBMCON~1\CICS\BIN;%PATH%"
SET PATH=";%PATH%"
IF EXIST c:\IMNNQ_98\IMNENV.BAT CALL c:\IMNNQ_98\IMNENV.BAT
LH DOSKEY

SET CLASSPATH=c:\jdk1.2.2\lib;c:\jdk1.2.2\jre\lib\ext;c:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.3\lib\classes111.jar;c:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.3\lib\servlet.jar;%CLASSPATH%
SET LIB=c:\IBMCON~1\CICS\LIB;%LIB%
SET TOMCAT_HOME=c:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.3;%TOMCAT_HOME%
SET JAVA_HOME=c:\jdk1.2.2

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks!

Dranim
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