environment variable JAVA_HOME for tomcat

[aparna]

hi
i have redhat 9
i installed tomcat 5
when i start this the shell says:

The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly
This environment variable is needed to run this program

how to set this environment variable?? I tried many priocedures, but none worked.
Plz help

Aparna

[jasonlambert]

This has been covered so many times....

export JAVA_HOME=/your/path/to/java

Jason

[coolguy-in]

that means your JAVA_HOME is not set

have you installed JAVA in your system (it should be j2sdk-1.4.X) for catalina 5.

here are some steps to set your JAVA_HOME:
enter it into /etc/profile file

open your /etc/profile file and write this below HISTSIZE:

JAVA_HOME=/YOUR/JAVA/PATH

and now in export line add this JAVA_HOME
it will look like

export PATH USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC JAVA_HOME

catalina detects the JAVA from JAVA_HOME environment variable so you need JAVA_HOME exported.
now time to rerun your profile file so that it will be effective:

source /etc/profile

you can check if JAVA_PATH is effective with this command

java -version
it will show you the version of your java installed.

[jadurant]

first lines of /etc/profile advise against changing instead the advice is to put changes into /etc/profile.local which does not exist...should /etc/profile.local be created. Tnx, jad