TOMCAT: quote < ' > in CATALINA_HOME environment variable causing load error?

Question

I'm trying to install tomcat as a service using service.bat in the following path : C:\Program Files\text with' quote\Tomcat

but I keep getting the following error : java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Program Files\text with quote\Tomcat\conf\logging.properties; (The system cannot find the path specified)

as you can see from the error message the ' is being ignored and thus keeping some files from being found/loaded properly.

If I switch to a path without a quote, everything works well. Is there a way around this as I need to include a ' in the path?

Piotr P. Karwasz · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-31T16:23:52.577

Your problem comes from the way Procrun parses its command line parameters. In those parameters which accept lists of values (++DependsOn, ++Environment, ++JvmOptions, ++JvmOptions9, ++StartParams and ++StopParams) single quotes ' are stripped after the parameter value has been split into single values. There is no way to quote them (cf. source code).

Therefore the ++JvmOptions parameter used in service.bat is interpreted as follows (one value per line):

-Dcatalina.home=C:\Scarlett oHara;-Dcatalina.base=C:\Scarlett oHara
-Dignore.endorsed.dirs=C:\Scarlett oHara\endorsed;-Djava.io.tmpdir=C:\Scarlett oHara\temp
-Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager
-Djava.util.logging.config.file=C:\Scarlett oHara\conf\logging.properties;

You might notice that some entries are joined by ;, due to the ' unintentional quoting.

The only way to fix this is to start Prunmgr (the executable renamed as tomcat*w.exe) and fix them in the "Java" tab:

-Dcatalina.home=C:\Scarlett o'Hara
-Dcatalina.base=C:\Scarlett o'Hara
-Dignore.endorsed.dirs=C:\Scarlett o'Hara\endorsed
-Djava.io.tmpdir=C:\Scarlett o'Hara\temp
-Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager
-Djava.util.logging.config.file=C:\Scarlett o'Hara\conf\logging.properties;

or work directly on the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Apache Software Foundation\Procrun 2.0 registry keys.

See also:

a similar problem due to quoting: Adding multiple values to an environment in registry and retrieving in Java application

TOMCAT: quote < ' > in CATALINA_HOME environment variable causing load error?

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