How to start tomcat7 when catalina.sh does not work?

Question

I installed tomcat7 via the command sudo apt-get install tomcat7, now I went to /usr/share/tomcat7/bin and inputted catalina.sh but the following error occured

Cannot find /home/mukund/usr/share/tomcat7/bin/setclasspath.sh
This file is needed to run this program

What did I wrong? How to start apache tomcat? Please give the solution in step by step
Thanks

Solution

When you install tomcat7, you have nothing to type to start it. It starts up automatically. Notice in install log:

$ sudo apt-get install tomcat7
...
Creating config file /etc/logrotate.d/tomcat7 with new version
 * Starting Tomcat servlet engine tomcat7                                [ OK ]
Setting up authbind (2.1.1) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...

So, to test it, you have to write in browser http://localhost:8080. And you will see the page:

It works !

If you're seeing this page via a web browser, it means you've setup Tomcat successfully. Congratulations!

This is the default Tomcat home page. It can be found on the local filesystem at: /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/ROOT/index.html

Tomcat7 veterans might be pleased to learn that this system instance of Tomcat is installed with CATALINA_HOME in /usr/share/tomcat7 and CATALINA_BASE in /var/lib/tomcat7, following the rules from /usr/share/doc/tomcat7-common/RUNNING.txt.gz.

You might consider installing the following packages, if you haven't already done so:

tomcat7-docs: This package installs a web application that allows to browse the Tomcat 7 documentation locally. Once installed, you can access it by clicking here.

tomcat7-examples: This package installs a web application that allows to access the Tomcat 7 Servlet and JSP examples. Once installed, you can access it by clicking here.

tomcat7-admin: This package installs two web applications that can help managing this Tomcat instance. Once installed, you can access the manager webapp and the host-manager webapp.

NOTE: For security reasons, using the manager webapp is restricted to users with role "manager-gui". The host-manager webapp is restricted to users with role "admin-gui". Users are defined in /etc/tomcat7/tomcat-users.xml.

To start/stop Tomcat, use service tomcat7 start/stop/restart:

$ sudo service tomcat7 stop
 * Stopping Tomcat servlet engine tomcat7                                [ OK ] 
$ sudo service tomcat7 start
 * Starting Tomcat servlet engine tomcat7                                [ OK ] 

Comments

[Danatela]

Did you edit your catalina.sh? If you do, please post it here.

[Mukund]

no nothing, didint do anything, just installed by sudo cammand, searched where it is installed, found catalina.sh and typed ./catalina.sh

[Mukund]

and i tried to connect the apache tomcat server 127.0.1.1:8080 via web browsers, its works, i tried the same with android emulator, its not connectiong, how to make it connect?

[Mukund]

i tried 10.0.2.2, there is also an issue, if you try localhost/index.html, problem loading page is occuring, any configuration issues?

[Danatela]

Probably you should ask another question or come into chat.