Hi I'm having a tough time here trying to figure out why the Windows Service for Tomcat wont start. This is what I have done: 1) I've downloaded Tomcat 5.0.16, and unzipped the files into a directory, (E:\tomcat_test\). 2) I have also installed the service according to the link: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/daemon/procrun.html#Installing%20the%2 0service <http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/daemon/procrun.html#Installing%20the% 20service> I.e. with the following arguments E:\tomcat_test\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.16>.\bin\tomcat //IS//Tomcat5 --DisplayName "Tomcat 5.0.12" --Description "Tomcat 5.0.12 JDK 1.4 http://jakarta.apache.org"; --ImagePath E:\tomcat_test\jakarta-tomcat -5.0.16\bin\bootstrap.jar" --StartupClass org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap;main;start --ShutdownClass org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap;main;stop --Java C:\j2sdk1.4.2\jre\bin\client\jvm.dll --StdOutputFile e:\log.txt --StdErrorFile e:\err.txt --WorkingPath e:\tomcat_test\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.16\ 3) Launched Windows Services tool, and started it from there, but then it seems to start and then it exists 4) As an alternative I started it from the command line by using the command: E:\tomcat_test\jakarta-tomcat -5.0.16>.\bin\tomcatw //GT//Tomcat5 Now this works, cause the process comes up and I am able to browse the http://localhost:8080 <http://localhost:8080/> page with no trouble 5) And then I started it by using the command: e:\temp>\tomcat_test\jakarta-tomcat -5.0.16\bin\tomcatw //GT//Tomcat5 Now this does NOT work I've been using both regmon and filemon to try and figure out what is happening. And this is my conclusion without a solution :-( So when I am running it from the command line, from the working directory it works fine. From the tools filemon and regmon I could see important differences between when it worked and when it did NOT work. The differences seems to be that the service is very dependent on the actual working directory, cause when it did not work it failed to find the entries below, whereas when it worked fine it used the proper path to these, NOT WORKING C:\Windows\system32\conf\catalina.properties C:\Windows\system32\common\classes C:\Windows\system32\common\endorsed C:\Windows\system32\common\lib WORKING E:\tomcat_test\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.16\catalina.properties E:\tomcat_test\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.16\common\classes E:\tomcat_test\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.16\common\endorsed E:\tomcat_test\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.16\common\lib Any ideas, what is going wrong here? Regards Tobias
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