JAVA_HOME settings - problem

Question

Hello,
I am a Fedora user.
I installed apache tomcat to this location in my computer: /usr/local/apache-tomcat-5.5.20
When I want to run the "./startup.sh " command, I receive this error:
Neither the JAVA_HOME nor the JRE_HOME environment variable is defined
At least one of these environment variable is needed to run this program
It is normal.. Then I set the JAVA_HOME as following:
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_10
However, I still receivethe same error:
Neither the JAVA_HOME nor the JRE_HOME environment variable is defined
At least one of these environment variable is needed to run this program
I am new in Linux and I could not understand why I receive this error even if I set the JAVA_HOME. Any recommendation would help me a lot!
Thanks & Regards
hs

Answer 1

Hello again,
If I set the JAVA_HOME on the console and run the startup script, tomcat works.
If I set the JAVA_HOME on the console but try to run the startup script on another console it does not work.
Permanent solution: (I am directly writing the instructions that I got from http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-44006.html)
You need to point out where you installed Java SDK. You will have to edit the file '.bashrc'. Backup this file first!
In terminal type:
gedit ~/.bashrc
Add the following lines to the file:
#Stuff we added to make tomcat go
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun/
export CLASSPATH=/usr/local/tomcat/common/lib/jsp-api.jar:/usr/local/tomcat/common/lib/servlet-api.jar
This was probably an experience problem. Thank you very much for the answer!
Happy new year! :-)
hs