Tomcat (7, 8) fails to start with java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.tomcat.util.res.StringManager

Question

I am trying to install Apache Tomcat to OS X El Capitan. I followed these instructions, that basically ask to download, unpack and run start script. However, when I enter lo

Answer 1

Do you have the tomcat-util.jar in your {CATALINA_HOME}/lib folder? If that is present then there must be an issue with your tomcat classpath.