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

I had the same problem and I ran netstat -ano > output.txt In output.txt file, I saw the the System process with PID 4 was holding onto that 8080 port. I could not release it in any way so I restarted the system. After that it was fine.