PHP on Tomcat 5.5 on Windows XP keeps dying

[Jonathan Mast]

Is there anyway that I can prevent Tomcat 5.5 on Windows XP from dying when
I execute the following code in an PHP page:

    $db_link = mysql_connect($db_host, $db_user, $db_pass, $new_link) or die
("Unable to connect to database");


This version of PHP does work with other mysql stuff, although here I'm
passing different values that elsewhere.

I could figure out what is wrong if tomcat would stay alive on the error,
but it doesn't.

Any ideas?