Tomcat 6 as a service

[Fred Artes]

I have a problem starting tomcat 6 as a service on my windows server 2003 !

Tomcat starts correctly launching startup.bat !!
startup.bat install install correctly tomcat 6 as a service but when I run it I have this error

TestMessageResource:error=\tomcat6.0\webapps\test\properties\TestMessageResources_it.properties (The system cannot find the path specified)

Path is correct !!!

Please help

[Misha Ver]

It sounds more like a problem with your application "test". Have you tried to start Tomcat without deploying this app?

[Fred Artes]

Misha Ver wrote:It sounds more like a problem with your application "test". Have you tried to start Tomcat without deploying this app?

I can see tomcat administration page with my application running !
The SAME application works perfectly when I start manuallt tomcat with startup.bat, so I dont' think it is an application problem !!



NOTE : I have many instances of tomcat on my machine. For this instance I changed port number in server.xml

1) <Server port="8008" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">
2) <Connector port="8085" protocol="HTTP/1.1" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8445" />
3) <Connector port="8011" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8445" />

[Fred Artes]

If I put a testApplication.rar in webapps folder and start tomcat, rar file is not unzipped

[Han Jie]

hi Fred

Maybe you can remove your windows service of tomcat6 and re-register it.

And i want to ask you that other file tpes can be deployed in webapps and it is unzipped except *.war?

[Fred Artes]

Han Jie wrote:hi Fred

Maybe you can remove your windows service of tomcat6 and re-register it.

I have done service.bat uninstall and service.bat install but nothing

Han Jie wrote:
And i want to ask you that other file tpes can be deployed in webapps and it is unzipped except *.war?

Ops, I'm a stupid

[leo donahue]

If you are using the zip version of tomcat...

cd to the tomcat bin directory.

issue this command: service install Tomcat6

That should install Tomcat as a windows service.

[Fred Artes]

No, same problem

I don't understand, Tomcat examples application work correctly. Only my application has problems ! But why it works fine if I start Tomcat using startup.bat ?

This is my server.xml

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> 

- <Server port="8008" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">
  <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener" SSLEngine="on" /> 
  <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.JasperListener" /> 
  <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.ServerLifecycleListener" /> 
  <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener" /> 

- <GlobalNamingResources>

  <Resource name="UserDatabase" auth="Container" type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase" description="User database that can be updated and saved" factory="org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory" pathname="conf/tomcat-users.xml" /> 
  </GlobalNamingResources>

- <Service name="Catalina">

  <Connector port="8085" protocol="HTTP/1.1" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8445" /> 
  <Connector port="8011" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8445" /> 

- <Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost">

  <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm" resourceName="UserDatabase" /> 

- <Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true" deployOnStartup="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">

  </Host>
  </Engine>
  </Service>
  </Server>