Installing Tomcat 7 as Service on Windows Server 2008

Question

I want to install my tomcat v7 0 12 as a service on my Windows 2008 Server  On the tomcat page I found this tutorial  But there isn t a service bat file in my installation dir   In the service overview of WS2008 it isn t possible easily create a new service like new- gt service

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I have spent a couple of hours looking for the magic configuration to get Tomcat 7 running as a service on Windows Server 2008... no luck.

I do have a solution though.

My install of Tomcat 7 works just fine if I just jump into a console window and run...

C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.26\bin\start.bat

At this point another console window pops up and tails the logs (tail meaning show the server logs as they happen).

SOLUTION

Run the start.bat file as a Scheduled Task.

Start Menu > Accessories > System Tools > Task Scheduler
In the Actions Window: Create Basic Task...
Name the task something like "Start Tomcat 7" or something that makes sense a year from now.
Click Next >
Trigger should be set to "When the computer starts"
Click Next >
Action should be set to "Start a program"
Click Next >
Program/script: should be set to the location of the startup.bat file.
Click Next >
Click Finish
IF YOUR SERVER IS NOT BEING USED: Reboot your server to test this functionality

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I just had the same issue and could only install tomcat7 as a serivce using the  32-bit 64-bit Windows Service Installer  version of tomcat    http   tomcat apache org download-70 cgi

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I had a similar problem  there isn t a service bat in the zip version of tomcat that I downloaded ages ago   I simply downloaded a new 64-bit Windows zip version of tomcat from http   tomcat apache org download-70 cgi and replaced my existing tomcat bin folder with the one I just downloaded  Remember to keep a backup first     Start command prompt   navigate to the tomcat bin directory   issue the command    service bat install  Hope that helps

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Looks like now they have the bat in the zip as well  note that you can use windows sc command to do more  e g   sc config tomcat7 start  auto   yes the space before auto is NEEDED

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its done through service bat file in apache tomcat7  visit this blog    install tomcat7 on windows

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To Start Tomcat7 Service     Open cmd  go to bin directory within  Apache Tomcat 7  folder  You will see some this like C     bin gt  Enter above command to start the service  C     bin gt service bat install  The service will get started now  Enter above command to start tomcat7w monitory service  If you have issue with starting the tomcat7 service then remove the service with command   C     bin gt tomcat7   DS  Tomcat7 Now the service will no longer exist  Try the install command again  now the service will get installed and started  C     bin gt tomcat7w   MS tomcat7w You will see the tomcat 7 icon in the system tray  Now  the tomcat7 service and tomcat7w will start automatically when the windows get start

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There are a lot of answers here  but many overlook a few points   I ran into the same issue and it was likely due to a combination of being a complete neophyte when it comes to tomcat   Even more I am rather new to web servers in general   I consider myself somewhat proficient user of windows  but I guess not proficient enough  In particular I don t work with services too much   I did not have a startup bat or any bat files   I only downloaded the  32-bit 64-bit Windows Service Installer   The bin that is created for that download is small - only 4 files   My colleagues were surprised that I did not have a catalina bat etc    and I was too   Only the below four files in the bin   And no  CATALINA HOME  or  TOMCAT HOME  etc     bootstrap jar tomcat-juli jar Tomcat7 exe Tomcat7w exe   With this setup I had some frustrations as setting parameters is done via the gui widget - very helpful I might add   So nearly all the answers I have perused were not immediately applicable as many said   go to bin and issue the startup bat file   I am a neophyte but not so much to not be able to look into the bin and start such a file it is existed   For my simple purposes  again remember that I am a neophyte at tomcat and even web servers  all I wanted to do was to be able to startup and shutdown the tomcat server from a cmd prompt window   Nothing too heavy duty   I am embarrassed to say how simple it is   It is probably evident to anyone with a shred of experience with services and such   To Start server   lt Tomcat Root gt  bin gt Tomcat7 exe start To Stop server   lt Tomcat Root gt  bin gt Tomcat7 exe stop   Found here -  http   crunchify com how-to-start-stop-apache-tomcat-server-via-command-line-setup-as-windows-service   I did not realize there was a separate download the 64-bit Windows zip file that has a tomcat server and all the standard array of cmd line tomcat management tools   This zip file has all the common startup shutdown scripts  batch files for windows  including catalina bat  sh etc     Then all the above answers make sense and are rather trivial     Remember I am a neophyte when it comes to tomcat and web servers  It appears these two downloads are somewhat mutually exclusive in the sense that if I download and install the 32-bit 64-bit Windows Service Installer version and the 64-bit Windows zip file the startup bat file in the 64-bit Windows zip file version will not run or interact with the 32-bit 64-bit Windows Service Installer tomcat instance   But I am not sure about this point

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Edit service bat     Swap two lines so that they appear in following order   if not     JAVA HOME               goto got JdkHome if not     JRE HOME               goto got JreHome Open cmd and run command service bat install Open Services and find Apache Tomcat 7 0 Tomcat7  Right click and Properties  Change its startup type to Automatic  with delay   Reboot machine to verify if the service started automatically

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You can find the solution here   Install the service named  Tomcat7   C   gt Tomcat bin service bat install   There is a 2nd optional parameter that lets you specify the name of the service  as displayed in Windows services   Install the service named  MyTomcatService   C   gt Tomcat bin service bat install MyTomcatService

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