Do I need to create a CATALINA_HOME variable?

[Christopher Bongaarts]

On 2/3/2014 10:46 AM, Craig_Caughlin wrote:
> I've installed Tomcat (apache-tomcat-6.0.39.exe) and I've often seen
> reference to a CATALINA_HOME variable.
>
> Do I need and/or is it just a good idea to create this?
>
> I'm going to guess it would be created as a system variable, called
> CATALINA_HOME, and not a user variable, right? What's the path?

Tomcat questions should go to the appropriate Apache Tomcat support lists.

(But since you're already here: CATALINA_HOME is an environment variable 
that points to wherever you installed the Tomcat software. It is 
normally set by the Tomcat startup script, so you don't need to 
change/override it unless you're doing something fancy with the Tomcat 
installation.  In documentation, it is used as a placeholder for "the 
tomcat installation directory".)

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