The next step is to correct or remove that path and run the echo %PATH% again. If it opens a directory then it's a valid path, otherwise, run window will tell it's an invalid path. We can confirm that by copying that path and opening from the command prompt by just copy pasting it on run window and hitting enter. This could be troublesome but it is the sure short way to find all invalid path in your PATH environment variable.Ĭan we do better? is there a way to omit some of the valid paths? Well, if you have paid close attention to the output of echo %PATH% command, you see it printed a couple of directories before throwing the "The system cannot find the path specified." error, which means they are valid, so we should start the search from the point point you see the error.įor example, in our case, the last valid path in the output above was "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\ ", so next path must be invalid. In order to check every path is correct, you need to split the whole PATH String by semicolon and check if they are correct by copying and opening a directory in command prompt. Now that you know the cause of this error is invalid directories and path in the PATH environment variable, you can easily solve this problem by finding and removing those invalid path entries which system is not able to found.ītw, finding invalid path can be a problem too if you have several directories listed in PATH environment variable. The solution of "The system cannot find the path specified." Error This error is nothing to do with Tomcat, it can come while running any program/application from command prompt or even when a program trying to use the PATH environment variable. Now that, we have tried printing the value of PATH environment variable and seeing the message after few valid PATH, it suddenly starts making more sense. To be honest, the error message makes sense if you read it, but we are so used to panic when we see the error, we don't try to understand the error message in first place.
There are some directories in the PATH which system is not able to resolve or find, hence it is throwing "The system cannot find the path specified." error. You can see that after printing some paths, the command prompt is throwing "The system cannot find the path specified." error again, which means it has nothing to do with Tomcat or Catalina but just with the PATH environment variable. 73\bin>echo %PATH %Ĭ :\Windows\system32 C :\Windows C :\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1. To find out if that's the case just run following command in your DOS command prompt:Ĭ :\apache -tomcat - 7.0. It seems this error occurs when you have invalid paths in your PATH environment variable e.g.
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This actually gives me hint that it's not the Tomcat but something is really wrong with the PATH environment variable, but what could be wrong? What does this error mean? and most importantly how to solve this error?Ĭause of "The system cannot find the path specified." Error
The system cannot find the path specified. In order to start the tomcat server, I was running the catalina.bat file as tomcat/bin/catalina.bat start and it wasn't starting the Tomcat at all, instead, it was keep throwing "The system cannot find the path specified." error as shown below:Ĭ :\apache -tomcat - 7.0. I haven't seen this error before so I was wondering whether tomcat is throwing or something is wrong with my system's PATH environment variable. Recently I was trying to run the Apache Tomcat server from the command prompt to test my Java web application on localhost, only to find the "The system cannot find the path specified" error in command prompt.
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