Most of the time many people choose to install Java sdk in /usr/java directory. After installing Tomact ( asking jakarta tomact ? or apache tomcat ?…. I think both are same apache is group of projects and jakarta is one of those projects name) , We may need to set the path of java home directory other wise tomcat will not start , it just shows the error messgae “The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined”.
[root@centcmd bin]# ./startup.sh
The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined
This environment variable is needed to run this program
Here is how i set the environment varaible for java home…
To set the java home directory type the command from terminal
export JAVA_HOME=”/path/to/java/home”
in my case it is….
[root@centcmd bin]# export JAVA_HOME=”/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_26″
to set the path of java commands
export PATH=”/path/to/java/bin:$PATH”
in my case it is ….
[root@centcmd bin]# export PATH=”/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_26/bin:$PATH”
After setting up java path just run the command [root@centcmd bin]# cat ~/ .bash_profile
which should display the entries of JAVA PATH.
If we need to set java home and path , we need to edit /etc/profile.d
without opening profile.d in editors like vi , we can just type these commands directly on terminal
to set Java home
[root@centcmd bin]#echo ‘export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_26’>/etc/profile.d/jdk.sh
[root@centcmd bin]#echo ‘export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH’>>/etc/profile.d/jdk.sh
now we need to set the source file for java
[root@centcmd bin]#source /etc/profile.d/jdk.sh
now java home has been set for all the users .
now if you type the command java -version it should show the version of your java .
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