title: The CATALINA_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly when setting up Tomcat 9.0.19
body: <p>can anyone help me with the set up of tomcat?
  I have downloaded the binary distribution of tomcat 9.0.19, unpacked and assigned the environment variable CATALINA_HOME to the path of the tomcat folder (C:\Users\User\Downloads\apache-tomcat-9.0.19-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-9.0.19)</p>
  
  <p>Now when I go to the bin folder and try "sh startup.sh", I get the message "Unable to start as CATALINA_HOME contains a colon (:) character
  or as for "./startup.sh": The CATALINA_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly
  How do I get tomcat to start?</p>
  
  <p>I have tried all the replies from this post: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9361623/catalina-home-environmental-variable-is-not-defined-correctly">CATALINA_HOME environmental variable is not defined correctly</a>
  But none of those worked for me</p>