Tomcat Environment Variables (2.5)

Added by Anthony Whyte, last edited by Anthony Whyte on Mar 22, 2008  (view change)

By convention, the base Tomcat directory (e.g. /usr/local/apache-tomcat-5.5.23) is referred to as $CATALINA_HOME. As a convenience, you should set $CATALINA_HOME as an environment variable. For UNIX operating systems one typically modifies a startup file like ~/.bash_login to set and export shell variables while Mac users typically set and export environment variables in .bash_profile. For Windows, go to Start -> Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Environment Variables and set your Tomcat environment variables via the GUI.

CATALINA_HOME

Set the CATALINA_HOME environment variable to point to the base directory of your Tomcat installation.

Unix/Mac: export CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat
Windows: CATALINA_HOME=C:\tomcat

PATH

Add the Tomcat /bin directory to your PATH variable:

Unix/Mac: export PATH=$PATH:$CATALINA_HOME/bin
Windows: append the string ;C:\tomcat\bin to the end of the system variable named Path

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