So apparently, I did end up make it more complicated than it is.
Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com]
Subject: Re: Hello
Vista 32-bit -> 32-bit Java JDK or JRE
Vista 64-bit -> 64-bit Java JDK or JRE
Not necessarily true. I run both 32- and 64-bit versions of the JVM on my
Vista 64 box, because some browsers only come in 32-bit versions and therefore
need the 32-bit plugin to run applets.
Allright, good to know.
For a 64-bit Vista, we first tried the Service Installer. It installed
properly, but we could not get it to run.
That depends on the JRE/JDK installed.
To use the tomcat6.exe program that's included with the .zip and .exe
downloads,
you must associate it with a 32-bit JVM - even on a 64-bit platform.
I understand that, but how would a newbie understand this ?
So we removed the 64-bit Service Installer
There is no 64-bit service installer.
Sorry, typo. Should have been "the Service Installer", tout court.
To make it work, we had to download 2 additional files
(tomcat5.exe and tomcat5w.exe), rename them respectively
to tomcat6.exe and tomcat6w.exe, and (I think) rerun the
service.bat script.
What you downloaded was the 64-bit versions, necessary to run Tomcat as a
service
with a 64-bit JVM.
Same remark as the newbie one above.
It should not be necessary to rerun the service.bat script.
Ok, just wasn't sure.
We downloaded them from here :
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/connectors/trunk/procrun/bin/
Oh, and there are 2 versions of each of the above files, depending on
whether your CPU is an Intel-64 or an AMD-64.
Not correct. Use the AMD64 version, which applies to current 64-bit chips from
both AMD and Intel; the IA64 version is for an older Intel 64-bit architecture
which has pretty much been killed off (just not soon enough for those of us
that had to use it).
I didn't know that. But who (other than an expert) would know that,
looking at those links alone ?
I believe that this definitely needs at least a HowTo on the Tomcat
site. I'll get to it.
Unfortunately, I think that the current structure of the downloadable
versions does not make this really easy to explain.
I posted another message a couple of days ago that asked why these
64-bit versions of tomcat.exe and tomcatw.exe were not just included in
the zip version. Any idea of the reason ?
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