Setting classpath in Win9.x version of Tomcat

[Brian Jay]

I'm enrolled in a Java class where we are creating JavaServer Pages. In order
to test and run examples I installed the Tomcat server. The problem is I
cannot get it to run. The user guide says I must set the classpath and the
tomcat_home environment variable. I have the JDK installed at c:\jdk1.3
and tomcat at c:\jdk1.3\tomcat. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

[David Thornton]

gotcha brian, i'm doing the same thing.

go to the ms-dos prompt and type the following two commands:

set tomcat_home="c:\jdk1.3\tomcat"
set java_home="c:\jdk1.3"

that's it! then you should be able to go to tomcat\bin and type startup
to get started.
if this doesn't answer your question well enough, just let me know.

David

[Brian Jay]

Thanks Brain
I got the server started but now I'm having problems running the same WAR
files or testing my own pages. I checked out JGuru and readme files but
I can't get them to run. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

"Brian Jay" <bjay@home.com> wrote:
>
>I'm enrolled in a Java class where we are creating JavaServer Pages. In
order
>to test and run examples I installed the Tomcat server. The problem is
I
>cannot get it to run. The user guide says I must set the classpath and
the
>tomcat_home environment variable. I have the JDK installed at c:\jdk1.3
>and tomcat at c:\jdk1.3\tomcat. Any help would be appreciated.
>Thanks

[David Thornton]

brian,

one easy way to run you examples is to put it in
c:\jdk1.3\tomcat\webapps\examples\jsp\briansdirectory\briansjsppage.jsp
then just make a link to that spot with some html page.

There's another way to set your own path, so that you could put your jsp
page in another directory, but i haven't gotten to that yet.

keep posting if you have any other troubles, i'm right there with you man.

David