Luckily I'm not a windows user, because all of this seems rather confusing to me.
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 09:25 +0100, André Warnier wrote: > 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 ? > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > -- Pieter Temmerman email: ptemmerman....@sadiel.es skype: ptemmerman.sadiel SADIEL TECNOLOGÍAS DE LA INFORMACIÓN, S.A. http://www.sadiel.es. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
