Unable to start as CATALINA_HOME contains a colon (:) character

Question

I'm trying to run a startup script but I get an error that CATALINA_HOME contains a colon, which I see that it does, however that is the path to tomcat.

In other questions I saw examples of setting CATALINA_HOME that included colons, so I don't see what's different here.

I'm on a Windows machine, using MINGW64 and I have JAVA_HOME set.

$ ./startup.sh
Using CATALINA_HOME:   C:\projects\apache-tomcat-8.5.11
Unable to start as CATALINA_HOME contains a colon (:) character

Anyone come across this before ?

Answer 1

If you use git bash on Windows machine, you still need to type "./startup.bat" instead of "./startup.sh"