Tomcat -- Running a web application

I'm trying to run a sample app in Tomcat. I've installed tomcat, set up the envi开发者_开发问答ronment variable by creating a new system variable called JAVA_HOME which is set to C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_20. And I've created a new dir for the web app in the tomcat program directory. In the cmd prompt I navigate to the tomcat program directory and type in bin/startup.sh and I get the following error: 'bin' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program, or batch file. I'm using tomcat 6.0 and I'm on a windows machine. What could the problem?

On Windows you must run the startup.bat file instead of the startup.sh file (note the extension is different).

Also, enter the bin directory before executing the bat script.

cd bin 
startup.bat

Your on windows try:

bin\startup.bat

If you try typing in bin\startup.bat on a Windows machine and still get the same error, there's a possibility that Windows is not seeing the batch script where it should be. As a-horse-with-no-name already said, try installing Tomcat to a location where there are no spaces in the path. In your case, anywhere other than Program Files.

EDIT: To resolve this space issue, you can do two things: 1) Install JDK/JRE to a common location without spaces (say, C:\Java) and set it to be JAVA_HOME environment variable. 2) Install Tomcat to another location (say, C:\Tomcat) and proceed from there. Since these are all in common location, I believe you can do this as a limited account user without needing admin privileges.

Try to install Tomcat (and possibly the JDK) into a directory without spaces.

The script you ran is intended for *nix systems. Try bin\startup.bat

I'm a little confused by some of the answers. First, the error you are receiving is from Windows. Nothing to do with Tomcat. The Windows OS thinks you have entered a command, and doesn't recognize it. Files with the .bat extension are always recognized by Windows as Batch file commands....... soooo..... Navigate to the bin directory, again, under your tomcat installation. Then....

Don't append the bin in front of the command. You should do a quick look to make sure that the "startup.bat" file is here (dir *.bat). Then just type "startup.bat".

Seems like I just type "catalina.bat start" (for my tomcat catalina installation)