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 tomc

Answer 1

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