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

I didnt try Sumama Waheed's answer but what worked for me was replacing the bin/catalina.jar with a working jar (I disposed of an older tomcat) and after adding in NetBeans, I put the original catalina.jar again.