
Right-click on Command Prompt, and then select Run as administrator. In the Search programs and files box, enter: Command Prompt.Ĭommand Prompt appears in the Programs list.

So nearly all the answers I have perused were not immediately applicable as many said, "go to bin and issue the startup.bat file" I am a neophyte but not so much to not be able to look into the bin and start such a file it is existed!įor my simple purposes (again remember that I am a neophyte at tomcat and even web servers) all I wanted to do was to be able to startup and shutdown the tomcat server from a cmd prompt window. With this setup I had some frustrations as setting parameters is done via the gui widget - very helpful I might add.

And no %CATALINA_HOME% or %TOMCAT_HOME% etc. My colleagues were surprised that I did not have a catalina.bat etc. The bin that is created for that download is small - only 4 files. I only downloaded the 32-bit/64-bit Windows Service Installer. I did not have a startup.bat or any bat files. In particular I don't work with services too much. I consider myself somewhat proficient user of windows, but I guess not proficient enough. Even more I am rather new to web servers in general. I ran into the same issue and it was likely due to a combination of being a complete neophyte when it comes to tomcat. There are a lot of answers here, but many overlook a few points.
