Have you set the following system properties?
export CATALINA_OPTS="-Dappserver.home=$CATALINA_HOME -Dappserver.base=$CATALINA_HOME"
For Windows use set CATALINA_OPTS=-Dappserver.home=$CATALINA_HOME -Dappserver.base=$CATALINA_HOME
.
This should be in the shell that starts Tomcat, a service startup script, or the Tomcat setenv.sh
script. More information and alternatives are described here: http://archiva.apache.org/docs/2.2.0/adminguide/webapp.html.