Tomcat is not running even though JAVA HOME path is correct

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When I am trying to run tomcat using startup bat I get the following error   The JAVA HOME environment variable is not defined correctly This environment variable is needed to run this program NB  JAVA HOME should point to a JDK not a JRE   But then I try C   gt echo  java home  and I get the following result  C  Program Files Java jdk1 6 0 25 bin   I have even tried setting JAVA HOME manually to system variable list  but this issue remains   What can I do to solve it   I am using Windows 7     Update  After setting a new system variable named JAVA HOME and setting its path to  C  Program Files Java jdk1 6 0 25 bin    I tried the start up script again and this time I get a new error   D  Work apache-tomcat-6 0 35 bin gt startup bat Files Java jdk1 6 0 25   was unexpected at this time    Any idea what this error means   I even tried setting the path to  C  Program Files Java jdk1 6 0 25   that is without bin  but same error occurs

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Set Environment Variable   Windows Key   Pause Key   switch to  Advanced   click  Environment Variables   in  System Variables   lower list   click  New   or  Edit  if you already have it    name  JAVA HOME  value  C  PROGRA 1 Java JDK16 1 0 3  for C  Program Files Java jdk1 6 0 32  click  ok     go to  path  in  system variables    add   at the end of the line  unless there is already one there    add   C  PROGRA 1 Java JDK16 1 0 3 bin  click  ok  through all  -- restart your computer  advisable

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Also ensure that you have the correct version of Tomcat for the CPU type   I had installed a 64bit tomcat on a 32bit O S but it was giving me the JAVA HOME exception when that wasn t the case at all

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Check the comparability  if you are using java 8 then use tomcat 9  if you are using java 7 then use tomcat 7  and also set the JAVA HOME till C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 101  not with bin

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To run Tomcat8 you need to have JRE HOME defined in Env Variable    JAVA HOME alone will not do even if correctly set     JRE HOME   C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 77 jre   You should select the JRE that is inside SDK  i e  one with your JDK SDK  installation  In other words your JAVA HOME    jre  When compiling JDK is needed to support JSP  to compile Servlets which are generated from   jsp files  Otherwise to run JRE is needed  So when you develop you need JAVA HOME and when you deploy you need JRE HOME

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First Run the tomcat directly through the tomcat  bin folder with  startup bat if running sucessful the set the variable as below sample       JAVA HOME value   C  Program Files Java jdk1 6 0 32   path  C  Program Files Java jdk1 6 0 32 bin   CATALINA HOME C  Program Files Apache Software Foundation Apache Tomcat 7 0 27    PATH  PATH   JAVA HOME  bin  CATALINA HOME  bin   if needed CLASS PATH  CATALINA HOME  lib  JAVA HOME  lib

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Remove the  bin  from JAVA HOME  That solves the issue

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For reference for me with Atlassian s Bamboo the issue was because I had wrapped the command in speech marks  So  SET JRE HOME  C  Program Files Java jre1 8 0 121    Was wrong  where as the right version is   SET JRE HOME C  Program Files Java jre1 8 0 121   This gave me the error message  Files Java jre1 8 0 121   was unexpected at this time

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I deleted the Tomcat and unzipped it again and it worked

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Try installing java somewhere else - in a directory without spaces  Set again the JAVA HOME variable and try again  I remember Tomcat had some problems on Window XP with spaces if any variables it was using while starting contained spaces  Maybe it s similar with Windows 7   I remember I had to change some lines in Tomcat java classes which were handling Tomcat startup    Edit  Luciano beat me to noticing it but you should also remove bin from JAVA HOME   Edit  I also remember that another fix  didn t test it myself  though  was to set JAVA HOME to the shorthand version e g  C  Progra 1 Java jdk1 6 0 25

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I think that your JAVA HOME should point to  C  Program Files Java jdk1 6 0 25   instead of  C  Program Files Java jdk1 6 0 25 bin   That is  without the bin folder   UPDATE  That new error appears to me if I set the JAVA HOME with the quotes  like you did  Are you using quotation marks  If so  remove them

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I had Win 8 x86 installed  My Path variable had entry C  Program Files Java jdk1 6 0 31 bin and I also had following variables    JAVA HOME   C  Program Files Java jdk1 6 0 31  JRE HOME   C  Program Files Java jre6    My tomcat is installed at C  Program Files Apache Software Foundation apache-tomcat-7 0 41  And still it did not worked for me   I tried by replacing Program Files in those paths with Progra 1  I also tried by moving JAVA to another folder so that full path to it does not contain any spaces  But nothing worked   Finally environment variables that worked for me are    Kept path variable as is with full Program Files i e  C  Program Files Java jdk1 6 0 31 bin JAVA HOME   C  Program Files Java jdk1 6 0 31 Deleted JRE HOME   So what I did is removed JRE HOME and removed semicolon at the end of JAVA HOME  I think semicolon should not be an issue  though I removed it  I am giving these settings  since after a lot of googling nothing worked for me and suddenly these seem to work  You can replicate and see if it works for you   This also worked for Win 7 x64  where   Path variable contained C  Program Files  x86  Java jdk1 7 0 17 bin JAVA HOME is set to C  Program Files  x86  Java jdk1 7 0 17  without semicoln    Please tell me why this worked  I know removing JRE HOME was weird solution  but any guesses what difference it makes

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there are two types of environment variable  first User variable if you path in this it will work for that particular user only  second is System variable if you set path in this it is used by all type of users   In my system i set JAVA HOME in system variable it was not working then i set path in  User variable it is working     so try in both type of environment variable

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Set environment variables for JAVA HOME and JRE HOME without the  bin  That worked for me

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Avoid semicolon in the end of any environment variables    from JAVA HOME or JRE HOME  JAVA HOME C  Program Files Java jdk1 6 0 25 bin   and  JRE HOME C  Program Files Java jdk1 6 0 32 jre   should be like as shown

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I set the   variable name   JAVA HOME  value     C  Program Files Java jdk1 6 0 32  I set these properties in system environment variables without semicolon  tomcat is running on my system   It really works

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I had similar problem and please note that we need not set JAVA HOME unless we are going to use debug mode  tomcat in windows 7 can handle spaces in environment variables the problem is because of  bin  in the path  setting JRE HOME to C  Program Files  x86  Java jre1 8 0 65 solved my problem and tomcat is up and running without any trouble

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Some times semiColon makes matter  please ensure    JAVA HOME c  Program Files Java jdk1 6 0 32    but not   JAVA HOME c  Program Files Java jdk1 6 0 32    Same problem i got but not solved

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Remove semicolon and you can see that link  http   www ntu edu sg home ehchua programming howto Tomcat HowTo html

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