tomcat error -SEVERE: Cannot start server. Server instance is not configured
 

Hi,
root@localhost ~]# tail -f /opt/apps/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.26/logs/catalina.out
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:510)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:568)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)
Aug 11, 2011 1:21:18 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
SEVERE: Cannot start server. Server instance is not configured.

Hi,

There should be an exception happened. Keep tail -f running and try to start tomcat again. Watch for the start of the exception, that should give you some hints about the actual problem.

Regards