Tomcat not working!!!!! please Help

Question

hey,
I have windows XP OS on my computer. I installed tomcat on my computer a few days ago and it was working fine. but when i tried to run it yesterday it would not run. when i do start tomcat the tomcat window pops up and then just vanishes in two second. and when i did start and stop tomcat via command line, after doing the stop i got bunch of error messages
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\patedha>cd..
C:\Documents and Settings>cd..
C:\>cd "Program Files"
C:\Program Files>cd "Apache Group"
C:\Program Files\Apache Group>cd "Tomcat 4.1"
C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1>cd bin
C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1\bin>catalina start
Using CATALINA_BASE: C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1
Using CATALINA_HOME: C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1\temp
Using JAVA_HOME: C:\j2sdk1.4.0_02
C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1\bin>catalina stop
Using CATALINA_BASE: C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1
Using CATALINA_HOME: C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1\temp
Using JAVA_HOME: C:\j2sdk1.4.0_02
Catalina.stop: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:295)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:161)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:148)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:425)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:375)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:290)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:118)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.stop(Catalina.java:581)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:402)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:180)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.
java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces
sorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:203)
Please help me out. i have a project due and i really need to get tomcat working for it.
Thanking You
Dhaval

Answer 1

Hey,i had this same problem
1) Go to Setting->Control Panel->Administrative tools->Services.
Modify Apache to Manual by right clicking on properties.
2) Then go to windows explorer
go to the folder where Jakarta is installed
go to bin
click on startup.bat