Start Tomcat: The BASEDIR environment variable is not defined correctly

From: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-495589.html When I try to start up the tomcat server by doing: /usr/local/tomcat/bin$ sh catalina.sh , I get this message: The BASEDIR environment variable is not defined correctly This environment variable is needed to run this program Solution: To solve it, make sure the $CATALINA_HOME and $JAVA_HOME are both set properly. Then enable the [...]

unable to load configuration when deploy struts project on tomcat

When you get errors like that: Unable to load configuration. – bean – jar:file:/D:/deploy/struts2-core-2.1.6.jar!/struts-default.xml:29:72 at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.ConfigurationManager.getConfiguration(ConfigurationManager.java:58) at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.Dispatcher.init_PreloadConfiguration(Dispatcher.java:360) at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.Dispatcher.init(Dispatcher.java:403) at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher.init(FilterDispatcher.java:190) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:275) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:397) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:108) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:3709) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4363) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:719) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:516) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:578) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) [...]

How to install and configure Apache Tomcat 6

PDF: Config Tomcat 6 From: http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/ehchua/programming/howto/tomcat_howto.html Apache Tomcat is the official Reference Implementation (RI) for Java Servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP). Tomcat is an open-source project, under the “Apache Software Foundation” (which also provides the famous open-source industrial-strength Apache HTTP Server). The mother site for Tomcat is http://tomcat.apache.org. This configuration guide is NOT meant for production purpose, but merely for [...]