Could not start Tomcat 6 on Windows XP

By mkgobaco

I recently tried installing Tomcat 6 along with JDK 1.6 and was getting an error message saying it could not start Tomcat 6. I searched the web and found the solution: http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9493825

Basically, Tomcat 6 couldn’t find a file called msvcr71.dll. I just copied it over from c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v1.1.4322 to c:\windows\system32 and was able to start tomcat6 using “net start tomcat6″ on the command line. (You could start the service using services.msc too).

Hope this helps somebody else


Adam: Thanks a lot to mkgobaco who posted the above tips to start Tomcat. I faced the same problem and cleared it with the above dll mentioned.