Long explanation:
1) the Windows installer, for some unfathomable reason, does not contain all the files.
The 64-bit zip file does.
2) a standard java JVM does not have the "plumbing" to run well as a Windows Service (for
example, it does not react to Windows Service Events). That's why some smart people
created a "service wrapper" which does have such plumbing, and this wrapper in turn will
run the JVM which runs tomcat. This wrapper is what you get as "tomcat7.exe".
3) this wrapper takes its parameters from the Windows registry (for example, which JVM to
run). Another Windows program, distributed as "tomcat7w.exe", is the GUI editor which
allows to view/modify these parameters.
Normally, all this should be set up properly by the tomcat exe installer. But it looks
like in your case, something did not happen correctly.
Under Windows 7, it may be because you did not get rid of UAC, or did not run the
installer "as an administrator", or who knows what else.
André Warnier wrote:
Joseph Morgan wrote:
We downloaded and installed apache-tomcat-7.0.8.exe install for
Windows from the Apache site, and installed as we normally do, from
the EXE, and, as you presume, as a service.
We normally start it via the Tomcat monitor, but of course that isn't
working. So, from the command line in the "bin" directory, we are
running, simply, "tomcat7.exe".... and it is from that we see the
message. Now that I take a closer look at the bin dir... there isn't
a "startup.bat".
Right. Then, in short : run "tomcat7w.exe", which should be there.
That's a GUI which allows to edit parameters stored in the Registry, for
the "Tomcat JVM wrapper" which is "tomcat7.exe".
In one of the tabs, there should be the path of the JVM to run, and
that's probably what is wrong. Rectify it and retry tomcat7.exe.
I'm not familiar with Tomcat7, but that's how it used to be for 5 and 6.
-----Original Message-----
From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] Sent: Monday, April 11,
2011 7:40 AM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: Tomcat 7 Startup Problems
Joseph Morgan wrote:
We have a newly installed Tomcat 7 64bit in Windows 7 (quad-core w/8gb
ram, 322GB free disk space)
From where did you download / install it ?
How did you install it ?
We copied the msvcr71.dll into the bin directory, and have Java
1.6.0_23-b05 64 bit.
Tomcat doesn't start,
How do you start it ?
and all we get from it is:
Service 'tomcat7' is missing the ImageFile
Where do you get that message ?
Presuming it is installed as a Windows Service, what does the Windows
"Services applet" show for this service ? (as an executable file)
If you open a command window and navigate to Tomcat's installation
directory, and enter "bin/starstup.bat", what do you see ?
None of the normal Tomcat logs are written even with debug set on, so
it's clear the basics of Tomcat can't seem to get going...
Any ideas are appreciated.
Joe
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