Hi, Perhaps http://www.nabble.com/Tomcat-5.5-and-x64-Windows-to8430335.html#a20310083 might help.
Yo can download the x64 version of the service exe and use that instead. Hope this helps Regards, Serge Fonville On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:37 PM, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote: > Hi. > > A colleague recently downloaded the Tomcat 5.5.27 "service installer" from > the official Tomcat site and tried to install it on a Windows XP > workstation. But considering that this is a 64-bit XP system, the Tomcat > service refused to start. > (The installed Java is a Sun java 1.6.0 64-bit JDK or JRE). > > Being an assiduous reader of this forum, I of course knew why, and > following the usually excellent advice given here, I told him to de-install > the service version, and instead download and install the zip version, and > consequently install it as a service using the service.bat script. > That part worked nicely. > However, when trying to start the service later on, something goes awry, > and the service does not start. The Windows Event logger is pretty useless, > mentioning an error of type 0/0 or similar. > In the Tomcat logs directory however, I find the file > jakarta_service.20090210, with the contents below. > > Anyone have any idea what's wrong ? > (I have this suspicion that even with the zip version, I need to get the > 64-bit version of procrun somewhere else, yes ?) > > > [2009-02-10 12:29:00] [info] Procrun (2.0.4.0) started > [2009-02-10 12:29:00] [info] Running Service... > [2009-02-10 12:29:00] [info] Starting service... > [2009-02-10 12:29:01] [174 javajni.c] [error] %1 is not a valid Win32 > application. > [2009-02-10 12:29:01] [994 prunsrv.c] [error] Failed creating java > C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_12\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll > [2009-02-10 12:29:01] [1269 prunsrv.c] [error] ServiceStart returned 1 > [2009-02-10 12:29:01] [info] Run service finished. > [2009-02-10 12:29:01] [info] Procrun finished. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >