title: Tomcat invalid lib directory
body: <p>I am trying to deploy a basic HelloWorld web app with tomcat via eclipse, but I can't seem to deploy it with eclipse.  This is the error message I get whilst deploying manually.</p>
  
  <pre><code>May 20, 2012 10:44:09 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory validateFile
  WARNING: Problem with directory [/home/chris/lib], exists: [false], isDirectory:         [false], canRead: [false]
  May 20, 2012 10:44:09 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory validateFile
  WARNING: Problem with directory [/home/chris/lib], exists: [false], isDirectory:     [false], canRead: [false]
  java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina
      at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217)
      at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
      at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321)
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266)
      at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:217)
      at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:406)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am running ubuntu 11.10 and i installed eclipse manually and installed tomcat through eclipse.
  I am working on getting my code into github, and will post the link when i confirm its working.</p>
  
  <p>How can i test my code via tomcat on ubuntu?</p>