Thank you very much for the excellent tutorial

Gamification sure has been one of the big buzzwords of the past couple of years, and it’s great to see the practical applications of it entering product development lifecycles with features like ideas voting within software. No doubt the move toward serious gaming still has a lot of implications for business yet to flourish over the years to come in such a fast moving space!

Luke Winter
Community Manager
OneDesk

That’s great news about the install of Tomcat working for you!

When installing Tomcat Server on Microsoft Windows the standard behavior shows the log feedback in a terminal window when starting Tomcat.

This type of behavior can also be accomplished on unix type of systems by configuration or with a simple command:

#Open an additional terminal window and view the default tomcat log file:
$ tail tomcat/logs/catalina.out

#Review the last 200 lines of the tomcat log file with this command:
$ tail -200 tomcat/logs/catalina.out

Hope this helps,
Dan

thanks ,

Thanks for using this tutorial on How to Install Apache Tomcat!

I have seen this issue before. The “sh command not found” error can be easily fixed. This problem can occur when installing Tomcat’s .zip package, instead of Tomcat’s tar.gz package on Unix-based systems. The incorrect package will throw these type of errors because of the wrong type of line return in the files. Reviewing the “startup.sh” file in a vi text editor would reveal strange line return characters that look like this: ^M

How to fix sh errors in Tomcat
Visit Tomcat and download a .tar.gz package http://apache.deathculture.net/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.25/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.25.tar.gz, as outlined in the steps above.

Alternative method to fixing sh issues with Tomcat Install
# Backup your file
$ cp -p startup.sh startup.sh.bak
# Remove carriage returns from your file
$ cat startup.sh | tr -d ‘\r’ > startup.sh.new
# Update real file without bad carriage returns
$ mv startup.sh.new startup.sh
# Start Tomcat
$ sh startup.sh
(You may need to repeat this process for other Tomcat files, which is why the first method is preferred)

Please let me know if this helps you fix your Tomcat Installation.

Thank you,
Dan

: command not foundsh: line 2:
: command not foundsh: line 17:
: command not foundsh: line 23:
‘omcat/bin/startup.sh: line 26: syntax error near unexpected token `in
‘omcat/bin/startup.sh: line 26: `case “`uname`” in

any help ?