# Anyone have trouble running Tomcat under Windows XP?

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**Created:** [November 2, 2002, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-trouble-running-tomcat-under-windows-xp/135013 "2002-11-02T19:25:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 2, 2002, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-trouble-running-tomcat-under-windows-xp/135013/1 "2002-11-02T19:25:56Z")

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My computer was just replaced, and the new model has Windows XP.

Now I can’t seem to get Tomcat 4.1 installed and running. The system tells me that JAVA\_HOME isn’t properly defined. As far as I know that’s the only problem. When I try to surf to the local host, rather than the “Page not available” error, I get a 500 error with a Java stackdump, saying that the class

org.apache.jasper.JasperException

coiuldn’t be compiled.