Setting up Tomcat 7 on server: “NB: JAVA_HOME should point to a JDK not JRE”… Why?

Question

I\'m trying to set up Tomcat 6 on my server instance (Fresh install of Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise). I want to make a Java EE service available via a URL.

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Answer 1

Check that the JAVA_HOME is set up correctly and if you have JDK installed create JRE_HOME for jre, JAVA_HOME would be set up for the JDK. Also alternate between "C:/Progra~1/..." and "C:/Program Files/..." to make sure the system is recognizing the path correctly