On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Jeffrey Janner <
jeffrey.jan...@polydyne.com> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Leo Donahue [mailto:donahu...@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 11:10 AM
> > To: users@tomcat.apache.org
> > Subject: Tomcat7w.exe
> >
> > Did I miss something in the documentation about renaming this if one is
> > running multiple windows services of Tomcat?
> >
> > ex:
> > #Prod port 80
> > c:\apache-tomcat
> > c:\apache-tomcat\apache-tomcat-7.0.52
> > service install Tomcat7 (from bin directory here)
> >
> > #Dev port 8080
> > c:\apache-tomcat-dev
> > c:\apache-tomcat-dev\apache-tomcat-7.0.52
> > service install Tomcat7dev (from bin directory here)
> >
> > If I run the Tomcat7w.exe from #Dev, all of those settings point to
> > #Prod.
> >
> > Unless I change the name of Tomcat7w.exe in #Dev to Tomcat7devw.exe,
> > then everything is fine.
> >
> > Was that listed in the docs somewhere and I missed it?
>
> Leo,
> If you use the Windows installer that the foundation thoughtfully
> provides, you'll see that the installer actually renames the executables to
> whatever you put in the "Windows Service Name" field.  So, if you use it to
> install one instance with the service name "Prod", then in the bin
> directory, you will have Prod.exe and Prodw.exe.  If you second instance
> uses the service name "Dev", then the bin directory will have Dev.exe and
> Devw.exe.  And when you go to look for those processes using Task Manager,
> or Process Explorer, or whatever tool you use, they will actually show up
> as those names.  No more trying to figure out which Tomcat.exe is which.
> Jeff
>
>
>
+1 that's good to know, as I may have a need to have multiple tomcat/tomee
instances. Thanks!



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