Starting Tomcat add-on XAMPP not working - xampp

Question

I installed XAMPP 1.7.7, including:
Apache 2.2.21
MySQL 5.5.16
PHP 5.3.8
phpMyAdmin 3.4.5
FileZilla FTP Server 0.9.39
Tomcat 7.0.21 (with mod_proxy_ajp as connector).
My all other services work expect for Tomcat.
Things that I did right now, to fix this:
I realized that I did not had java on my computer, as on command prompt there was no path for java. So I installed JAVA 1.7.0 and also set the "Environment path".
But still its not getting started.
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards
Zeeshan

Answer 1

Assuming windows os,
Step 1. Create/edit an environment variable JAVA_HOME with path to jdk (important:- not to \bin but just c:\java\jdk_1_7_0 and dont put semicolon at the end).
step 2. Create/edit an environment variable JRE_HOME with path to jre (important:- again not to \bin but just the folder where bin is located and no semicolon in the end).
step 3. Create/edit an environment variable path that should be added like this,
< all the previous path stuff's >;%JAVA_HOME%/bin;.;
The xampp tomcat looks for %JAVA_HOME% or %JRE_HOME% individually, so just setting the path and classpath variables, up to the bin folder, will not work here. It works for standard Apache tomcat only.
Also, the your version of xampp have disabled the users by default. Enable it by un-commenting the user part in the x:\xampp\tomcat\conf\tomcat-users.xml

Answer 2

You need to execute manually following bat file
c:\xampp\catalina_start
or
put
catalina_start ,
catalina_stop
in XAMPP control panel start up

Answer 3

I had the exact same problem and it was caused by running a 32 bits Tomcat on a 64 bits windows. (I was using XAMPP 1.8.3 in a Windows 8 64 bits.)
First:
Make sure you have JAVA_HOME system variable pointing to your jdk folder (not the \bin);
Make sure %JAVA_HOME%\bin; is in your %PATH% system variable.
The solution:
Uninstall the Tomcat7 service if you have installed it already;
Download a 64 bit version of Tomcat 7 for windows (check this link to get the latest - I used the 7.0.42 version);
Replace the tomcat7.exe and tomcat7w.exe files of the C:\xampp\tomcat\bin folder with those present in the recently downloaded zip file.
Now you can install the service as usual (through XAMPP control panel, if you use it) and it should start just fine.

Answer 4

Just run the catalina.bat under the directory of C:\xampp\tomcat>
C:\xampp\tomcat>catalina.bat
CURRENT_DIR=%cd%"
set "CATALINA_HOME=%CURRENT_DIR%"
Since %cd% echo the current directory.

Answer 5

In environment variable add all these variable then catalina_start.bat will work
Variable Key
JAVA_HOME your java-jdk address
JRE_HOME your java-jre address
Path your java-jdk address ; your java-jre file address ; your java-jre/bin address ; our java-jdk/bin
It took me almost 5hours to find the method to let xampp-tomcat to start :'(