Background: Switching from Adobe JRun4 for ColdFusion and Java to Tomcat 7.0.42. Have 10 years of experience with JRun4 as J2EE application server, so am familiar with some of the issues involved.
Initial Install: Installed Tomcat 7.0.42 on Windows 2012 and created an instance following these instructions: http://www.ansoncheunghk.info/article/5-steps-install-multiple-apache-tomcat-instance-windows Error logged with DEBUG level: [2013-09-18 15:26:51] [debug] ( prunsrv.c:1679) [ 48] Commons Daemon procrun log initialized [2013-09-18 15:26:51] [info] ( prunsrv.c:1683) [ 48] Commons Daemon procrun (1.0.15.0 64-bit) started [2013-09-18 15:26:51] [info] ( prunsrv.c:1596) [ 48] Running 'MCAD_DEV1' Service... [2013-09-18 15:26:51] [debug] ( prunsrv.c:1374) [ 5632] Inside ServiceMain... [2013-09-18 15:26:51] [debug] ( prunsrv.c:844 ) [ 5632] reportServiceStatusE: 2, 0, 3000, 0 [2013-09-18 15:26:51] [info] ( prunsrv.c:1127) [ 5632] Starting service... [2013-09-18 15:26:51] [debug] ( javajni.c:233 ) [ 5632] loading jvm 'C:\Java\bin\server\jvm.dll' [2013-09-18 15:26:51] [debug] ( javajni.c:704 ) [ 3232] Jvm Option[0] -Dcatalina.home=C:\Apache3 [2013-09-18 15:26:51] [debug] ( javajni.c:704 ) [ 3232] Jvm Option[1] -Dcatalina.base=C:\Apache3 [2013-09-18 15:26:51] [debug] ( javajni.c:704 ) [ 3232] Jvm Option[2] -Djava.io.tmpdir=C:\Apache3\temp [2013-09-18 15:26:51] [debug] ( javajni.c:704 ) [ 3232] Jvm Option[3] -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager [2013-09-18 15:26:51] [debug] ( javajni.c:704 ) [ 3232] Jvm Option[4] -Djava.util.logging.config.file=C:\Apache3\conf\logging.properties [2013-09-18 15:26:51] [debug] ( javajni.c:704 ) [ 3232] Jvm Option[5] -Djava.class.path=C:\Apache3\bin\bootstrap.jar;C:\Apache3\tomcat-juli.jar [2013-09-18 15:26:51] [debug] ( javajni.c:704 ) [ 3232] Jvm Option[6] exit [2013-09-18 15:26:51] [error] ( javajni.c:863 ) [ 3232] FindClass org/apache/catalina/startup/Boostrap failed [2013-09-18 15:26:51] [debug] ( javajni.c:964 ) [ 3232] Java Worker thread finished org/apache/catalina/startup/Boostrap:main with status=3 [2013-09-18 15:26:51] [error] ( prunsrv.c:1183) [ 5632] Failed to start Java [2013-09-18 15:26:51] [error] ( prunsrv.c:1536) [ 5632] ServiceStart returned 4 [2013-09-18 15:26:51] [debug] ( prunsrv.c:844 ) [ 5632] reportServiceStatusE: 1, 1066, 0, 4 [2013-09-18 15:26:51] [info] ( prunsrv.c:1598) [ 48] Run service finished. [2013-09-18 15:26:51] [info] ( prunsrv.c:1764) [ 48] Commons Daemon procrun finished I cannot find any configuration errors within the server.xml and, of course, the error is regarding the Bootstrap. Any ideas what would be causing the error? Scott Pell ODOT Information Services | Enterprise Technology - Server Application Infrastructure Team | Senior Web Systems Analyst Office - 503-986-5373 | Cell - 503-931-1241