I remember installing an older version of Tomcat some years ago and it had a Setup.exe or Install.exe program in its library which invoked the Windows installer and installed it as a service. Some of the documentation for version 7 mentions the Windows installer but does not provide a link or gives an actual name. In some other part of the documentation it says to download the binary version and expand it in its own directory, which I did, but I can not find a Windows program that will install it and set it up as a service. I am running Windows 7 64 bit and I did download the Tomcat 64 bit binary version
I also tried at the command prompt the following to install it as a service, which I did, but it still will not start through the Windows Services panel. tomcat7 //IS//Tomcat7 --DisplayName="Apache Tomcat 7" --Install="C:\Tomcat7042\bin\tomcat7.exe" --Jvm=auto --StartMode=jvm --StopMode=jvm --StartClass=org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap --StartParams=start --StopClass=org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap --StopParams=stop Thank you Javier España Sr. Technical Analyst Honda North American Services, LLC. Information Services Division ISD Applications 1919 Torrance Blvd., Torrance, CA 90501 (310) 781-4514 Email: javier_esp...@hna.honda.com www.honda.com ***Beginning April 1, 2013 my email changed to javier_esp...@hna.honda.com. Please update your contact information. Thank you.*** From: André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org>, Date: 02/06/2014 11:14 AM Subject: Re: unable to start Tomcat through the Windows Services panel javier_esp...@hna.honda.com wrote: > Andre: > I used the batch file "SERVICE.BAT INSTALL" without any additional > parameters. Was I missing some parameter? Possibly. Depending on your particulat case, you may have needed to specifiy some option, and because you did not, it may have placed a wrong parameter somewhere, or used the wrong version of some module. I don't really now, this is just speculation. But obviously there is something wrong with the way your Service is defined. Or is there a better way of > installing Tomcat? > If all you want is to run Tomcat as a Service, then yes there is an easier way : download the "installer" version from the Tomcat website, and run it. I am a bit unfamiliar with the SERVICE.BAT file, but I would guess that it can also be run to uninstall the Service that you have already installed now. If it does offer that, then run the "SERVICE.BAT uninstall" first, and then run the "installer" that you downloaded. You can install it in the same directory as before, and it will just overwrite some files. As others have testified before, the installer version works fine and does the right thing automatically. Note that the "installer" version does not install all the files which are contained in the zip version, only the subset of them needed to run the Service version. It does not for example install the BAT files, since they are not needed to run the Service. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
