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 inst

Answer 1

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.

1. Start Menu > Accessories > System Tools > Task Scheduler

2. In the Actions Window: Create Basic Task...

3. Name the task something like "Start Tomcat 7" or something that makes sense a year from now.

4. Click Next >

5. Trigger should be set to "When the computer starts"

6. Click Next >

7. Action should be set to "Start a program"

8. Click Next >

9. Program/script: should be set to the location of the startup.bat file.

10. Click Next >

11. Click Finish

12. IF YOUR SERVER IS NOT BEING USED: Reboot your server to test this functionality