Tomcat 7 startup.bat exception

Question

When i run startup.bat file of Tomcat 7 i m getting the following error.

INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler [\"http-apr-8080\"] Mar 01, 2014 12:18:22

Answer 1

You may have another instance of Tomcat already running in the background and using port 8080. Try shutting it down with shutdown.bat, or look for a java process in the Windows Task Manager. You can also reboot if you really want to be sure that there's no other instance running.