Can't start tomcat with bat file in windows

Question

I have unzipped apache-tomcat-8.0.28 successfuly.Then I tried to start tomcat using cmd with startup.bat .But it returns below and tomcat isn't started.

Using CATALINA_BASE:   "D:\apache-tomcat-8.0.28"
Using CATALINA_HOME:   "D:\apache-tomcat-8.0.28"
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: "D:\apache-tomcat-8.0.28\temp"
Using JRE_HOME:        "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_66"
Using CLASSPATH:       "D:\apache-tomcat-8.0.28\bin\bootstrap.jar;D:\apache-tomcat-8.0.28\bin\tomcat-juli.jar"

What should I do ?

Answer 1

startup.bat typically opens a new command line. If the new command line closes immediately, it's hard to recognize the error message that's displayed for fractions of a second.

You can check error messages in tomcat's log/catalina.out or see them interactively by using catalina.bat run - this will not open a new window and not go to the background - instead start tomcat in the current command line window, displaying all the log information. It should be easy to spot the problem this way.