yes you're right: I will get rid of CLASSPATH settings; as mentioned in
my OP, I don't usu. set it but did so now for trouble-shooting
purposes... (and yes SDK is installed, I can compile stand-alone
classes fine..)

here's what is was: I have always run Tomcat on port 80, just so don't
have to put port no. in url....;) but what do you know, you can't do
that in Vista... yesterday when I was trouble-shooting this I saw
somewhere an error that port 80 was being used already...

so had to switch back to port 8080 and voila.....;)

I guess something to keep in "collective" memory of this group in case
get this same question again soon...

thank you all very much for your responses..





Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
>> From: news [mailto:news@(protected)
>> Subject: Vista woes....
>>
>> for Tomcat I have set CLASSPATH thus:
>> set
>> CLASSPATH=.;apache-tomcat-5.5.23\common\lib\servlet-api.jar;ap
>> ache-tomcat-5.5.23\common\lib\jsp-api.jar
>
> Get rid of the CLASSPATH - it need not and should not be set for running
> Tomcat. What you have above will certainly cause problems, since
> critical jars are now visible to multiple classloaders.
>
> If you have APR installed (bin\tcnative-1.dll), remove it for initial
> testing.
>
> Are you trying to run Tomcat as a service or via bin\startup.bat? (If
> you have no startup.bat, get the .zip download and install that instead
> of the .exe version.) Debug with the scripts first, before attempting
> to run Tomcat as a service. When run from the script, what do the
> command prompt windows show? What's in Tomcat's logs directory?
>
> - Chuck
>
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