You don't have to shut down IIS completely. I have IIS and Apache both running on my W2K domain controller. All I did was go to Internet Services Manager and Stop the Default Website and the Administration Website. Once you do that, port 80 is free and you can run tomcat on that port.
Craig >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/19/02 12:07PM >>> Is it "OK" to shut down IIS entirely on a computer running Windows 2000 Server and run ONLY Tomcat (bound to port 80) in "standalone" configuration as a service? The question might seem patently ridiculous to anyone who runs Unix, but I've gotten the definite impression that there are several fundamental system services (Active Directory being one of them) that depend upon having IIS up and running for their own operation. About a year and a half ago, I experimented with shutting down IIS using the service control panel. ActiveDirectory failed almost immediately, and Windows rapidly went into meltdown as service after service failed before ending on a BSOD. Fortunately, I hadn't changed the IIS startup from "Automatic" to "Manual", so rebooting put things back to normal. Nevertheless, it was a sobering experience that's left me quite hesitant to disable or try to replace IIS with ANYTHING -- especially in a way that's semi-permanent and would survive a reboot should it kill the OS. On the other hand, I know that lots of people seem to successfully run Apache under Windows 2000 Server. My suspicion is that the Windows version of Apache might actually implement one or more Microsoft-specified class interfaces and take on additional responsibilities that the Unix version doesn't -- assuming the role of IIS and delegating requests that go beyond Apache's own scope to the original IIS .dll libraries. Either that, or Apache users just don't run ActiveDirectory or any other services that depend upon IIS to run. In any case, the impression I've gotten is that trying to disable IIS to give port 80 to Tomcat 4 is a Bad Idea likely to cause FAR more problems than it solves. Is that accurate? Or is it possible to shut down IIS entirely and replace it only with Tomcat 4 without compromising the rest of the OS? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>