basedir-error &laquo; WordPress.com Tag Feed http://en.wordpress.com/tag/basedir-error/ Feed of posts on WordPress.com tagged "basedir-error" Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:08:12 +0000 http://en.wordpress.com/tags/ en <![CDATA[The BASEDIR environment variable is not defined correctly This environment variable is needed to run this program]]> http://gullele.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/the-basedir-environment-variable-is-not-defined-correctly-this-environment-variable-is-needed-to-run-this-program/ Sat, 11 Jun 2011 23:05:07 +0000 gullele http://gullele.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/the-basedir-environment-variable-is-not-defined-correctly-this-environment-variable-is-needed-to-run-this-program/ Trying to run Tomcat from the command line and got this problem?
I got this while trying apache-tomcat 7.
Here is how I solved it.
The basedir environment will complain if you have either the JAVA_HOME and/or the CATALINA_HOME paths are not correctly set on the environment variables.
where to get the environment variable? -> in /etc/environment.
Once you make sure paths are set correctly, the next would be allowing the shell scripts to have the executable permissions.
Basically I would do

sudo chmod 777 -R /PATH/TO/TOMCAT/bin

This, as you know is not advisable if for production or networked environments as it will allow all to execute.
Now, you should be able to startup tomcat as
./startup.sh by going into the tomcat’s bin folder.
ThIs Is IT

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