Hi Rob, 1. Installation of tomcat is straightforward. As it hasn't any native code Tomcat is 64-bit if your Java is 64-bit. (Please note: the Apache web server HAS native code, so you need a 64-bit version here) You can get it as zip and convert to a service with sc.exe (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/251192) or you can use the service installer. I like sc, because I always struggled with the automatic naming of the services of the installer.
2. Whatever, JRE suffices I haven't found a difference between them. JDK is advisable if you want to monitor the Java processes with something like visualvm as it comes bundled with this version. 3. JRE/JDK6 4. No, you can run it as a service with Tomcat. You could even run it as a service with Jetty, if you can get or create a 64-bit version (I do not know). However, you would need to install it the same way like Tomcat, i.e. deploy the war file because the Geoserver windows installer is only 32-bit. The difference and advantage of the service over the batch-file start is simply put: You log on manually start your batch file and then after a day's work, log out and go home. That means your process is gone this moment, while the service persists. So, a service makes sense. 5. Yes, there is none 64-bit=no JAI 6. I don't know. Swap servers if you can. However, if you have only one, my best practice is: Install a second Tomcat (8180 or so), install the new geoserver, copy the data directory, test and when you're happy switch it using Apache, i.e. change the httpd.conf. So, the downtime is only the Apache web server restart (2-3 minutes). Hope that helps Christian ----- ____________________________ Dr Christian Maul Project Manager Information Services Branch Department of Sustainability and Environment Level13, Marland House, 570 Bourke Street Melbourne 3000 PO Box 500, East Melbourne Vic 3002 Telephone: +61-3-8636 2325 Telefax: +61-3-8636 2813 -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Setting-Up-New-Windows-Server-tp5062378p5062467.html Sent from the GeoServer - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
