Tomcat not starting> java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina

Question

I cannot start the tomcat 5.5 server due to the following error message in stderr.log. Can someone please help me, this is a kind of emergency. Thanks in advance.

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina   
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)   
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)   
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)   
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)   
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)    
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:222)   
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:410)    

Answer 1

I ran into the same problem. Then I noticed that I accidentally deleted the lib folder from the tomcat directory. The problem was resolved as the lib folder in place.

Answer 2

I ran into the same problem and stacktrace using 8.5.11 tomcat. updating to tomcat 8.5.24 solved the problem.