Error starting Tomcat from NetBeans - '127.0.0.1*' is not recognized as an internal or external command

Question

Both Google and Stackoverflow have shown me people with similar issues however this error is slightly different in that the IP address is suffixed with an asterisk:

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Answer 1

After following the steps from @Johnride, I still got the same error.

This fixed the problem:

Tools-> Options-> Select no proxy

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI1j-8F8eN4