Can t start Tomcat as Windows Service

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I am using Tomcat6 on Windows 8  I am able to start Tomcat via startup bat without error  I ve copied Tomcat6 exe  Tomcat6w exe and service bat under tomcat bin directory and set the  exe files to run as administrator    I open command line with administrator rights and execute  service bat install  which ran without error  In Windows Services  I can see Apache Tomcat 6 which I want to run automatically    But both running from Windows Services using  Start  button and on start up of Windows I got the same error    Windows could not start the Apache Tomcat 6 on Local Computer  For more information  review the System Event Log  If this is a non-Microsoft service  contact the service vendor  and refer to service-specific error code 0   When I check Windows Event Log  I see the following bizarre error    Apache Tomcat 6 service terminated with the following service-specific error  The operation completed successfully    I tried copying msvcr71 dll under tomcat bin directory  but nothing changed  What else can I do   Update   I am using a different port than 8080  And I saw the error below in the log file  logs jakarta service log       1 is not a valid Win32 application

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All those mistakes are related to badly connected Apache and JDK.

go to start>System>Advanced_system_settings>
System Properties will pop-up go to Environment Variables
in User variables you have to set variable: JAVA_HOME value: C:\Program_Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_161
in System variables you need to put in the path: jdk/bin path & jre/bin path and also you need to have JAVA_HOME C:\Program_Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_161

people usually forget to setup JAVA_HOME in System variables.

if you still have an error try to think step by step

Open Event viewer>Check Administrative Events and Windows Logs>System see the error. If that doesn't help
go to C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0\logs commons-daemon.XXXX-XX-XX.log and READ THE ERRORS AND WARNINGS... there should be nicely put down in words what's the problem.

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Solution suggested by Prashant worked fine for me   Tomcat9 Properties   Configure   Startup   Mode   Java Tomcat9 Properties   Configure   Shutdown   Mode   Java

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It is very important that you don t include bin in your JAVA HOME path  It should be like   C  Program Files Java jdk-11 0 3

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You need to check the ports first  It might be situation that default port 8080  is used by some other application   Try changing the port from 8080 to some different port in conf server xml file    Also please check that your JRE HOME variable is set correctly because tomcat needs JRE to run  You can also set your JRE HOME variable in system  For that go to my computer- right click and select properties- Advanced system settings- Advanced- Environment variable and click on new-  variable name    JRE HOME  and variable value    C  Program Files Java jre7

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I had the similar issue  But installing tomcat 32bit and jdk 32 bit worked  This happens mostly because of mismatch Bit

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Well before going so far  fist make sure that you have the path to the Java directory in your Windows Environment Path   Start   Control Panel   look up for the  System  Edit the system environment variables Click on  Environment Variables     button  in the System Variables group box  click one the  New     button assign a desired name like  Java Home  Click on  Brows Directory  and address your Java jdk directory  ex  C  Program Files Java jdk-13 0 2 go to the Tomcat  bin  folder and start it up    Supposed to work now

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On a 64-bit system you have to make sure that both the Tomcat application and the JDK are the same architecture  either both are x86 or x64   In case you want to change the Tomcat instance to x64 you might have to download the tomcat8 exe or tomcat9 exe and the tcnative-1 dll with the appropriate x64 versions  You can get those at http   svn apache org viewvc tomcat    Alternatively you can point Tomcat to the x86 JDK by changing the Java Virtual Machine path in the Tomcat config

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Go to Start   Configure Tomcat      Startup   Mode   Java Shutdown   Mode   Java   This worked for me

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Windows could not start the Apache Tomcat 6 on Local Computer  For more information  review the System Event Log  If this is a non-Microsoft service  contact the service vendor  and refer to service-specific error code 0   When an error of this sort come  please go to start -  configure tomcat -  startup -  Mode  -  java similarly start -  configure tomcat -  shutdown -  Mode  -  java

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The simplest answer that worked for me was the one mentioned by Prashant  and edited by Bluish      Go to Start   Configure Tomcat   Startup   Mode   Java Shutdown   Mode     Java   Unfortunately I had and possibly others  to do this in a different way  I went to the tomcat bin directory and ran the  tomcat7w  application  which is how I changed the configuration    There I was able to change the startup mode and shutdown mode to Java  Like this   Step1  Locate tomcat7w   general location     TomCatHomeDIR  bin    In my case tomcat was in the xampp folder so my address was      C  xampp tomcat bin   tomcat7w file location screenshot  Step2  Launch tomcat7w  amp  amp  change the Mode in the Startup and Shutdown tabs  tomcat7w startup tab screenshot  Note  This based on version 7 0 22 that comes standard with XAMPP

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Check the apache tomcat catalina log     logs catalina log If in the log you find the  port was used  exception  then Check windows used ports and processes with following command  Run cmd netstat -ao it will list all listening ports and corresponding process Id  you can find the port which was used by Tomcat from the configuration file     conf server xml   lt Connector port  8080  protocol  HTTP 1 1         connectionTimeout  20000         redirectPort  8443    gt     and kill the process which use the tomcat port

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Cause     This issue is caused   1- tomcat can t find the jvm file from the directory specified to start the service because is deleted   2- Incorrect permissions to the java folder for read amp write access  3- Incorrect JAVA HOME path   4- Antivirus deleted the jvm file from java folder   Resolution      1- confirm that especified file exisit in the java directoy       2- Make sure that file has read amp write permissions       3- Confirm that JAVA HOME is correct for java version       4- if file has been deleted reinstall same java version to recreate   missing files

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I have the problem because I updated Java version   The following steps work for me         Run  Tomcat bin tomcat7w exe   Confirm  Startup  tab -   Mode  choose  jvm     Java  tab -  update  Java Virtual Machine  path to new version path   Restart Tomcat      Done

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In my case it helps if you don t install the x86 version over the x64 version    DOH

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