Apache Tomcat 7.0.40 disappears after 1 second

Question

I downloaded apache-tomcat-7.0.40 for Windows 8 and I followed the instructions by using the C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.40> startup.bat at my command prompt. The tomcat application appeared for 1 second and then disappeared, so I maybe the documents installation is not enough? What should I do? While my local host is internet information service.

Answer 1

In command prompt run below command, you will get the root cause.

...\apache-tomcat-7.0.42\bin> catalina.bat run

Answer 2

In my case it was because I run catalina.bat start and this command creates new command prompt, while catalina.bat run executes in the same command prompt and doesn't close it after finishing.

Answer 3

Try to remove the slash at the end of CATALINA_HOME variable path.

Answer 4

Catalina needs JAVA_HOME to work properly. So configure path to java jre and JAVA_HOME in environment variables.

To see the error, in command prompt execute

\path\apache-tomcat-6.0.41\bin > catalina.bat run