[Building Sakai] Ask Sakai: Sakai 2.6 will not run as windows service

[will at serensoft.com]

Patrick --

You might try the hints we've put together on running Tomcat within
Windows (64-bit in this case) as a service:
http://faq.serensoft.com/index.php?action=artikel&cat=21&id=66

There's "not much to it" when everything works. :(

Let me know if that helps...


On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Michael
Korcuska<mkorcuska at sakaifoundation.org> wrote:
> Forwarding to sakai-dev...
>
> On Aug 5, 2009, at 06:02,  wrote:
>
>> From: apache at oli-sakai.optimizedlearn.com
>> Reply-To: pbean at turningtechnologies.com
>> CC: mkorcuska at sakaifoundation.org hartsook at sakaifoundation.org
>> Message-Id: <20090805123849.DC5EF2C81D1B at oli-sakai.optimizedlearn.com>
>> Date: Wed,  5 Aug 2009 05:38:49 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>> Name:   Patrick Bean
>> Institute/Org:   Turning Technologies
>> Email:   pbean at turningtechnologies.com
>> Category:   TECH
>>
>> Subject:   Sakai 2.6 will not run as windows service
>>
>> Question or Comment:
>>
>>   Hello,
>>
>> I recently upgraded from 2.5.4 to 2.6.  I am running it on windows
>> 2003 with jave 1.5, tomcat 5.5.27. If i run the server from the
>> startup.bat file in the bin directory, everything runs properly.
>> However,  i am trying to install it as a service.  When i start the
>> service, the server does not properly start up.  Any assistance
>> would be appreceated.  If there is any information i can provide,
>> please let me know.
>>
>> Thanks for your assistance.
>>
>> ~Patrick
>>
>>
>>
>> Here is an exert from the end of the log it this helps:
>>
>> 2009-08-04 16:38:32,238  INFO Thread-1
>> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig - Deploying web application
>> archive sakai-axis2.war
>>
>> 2009-08-04 16:38:33,534  INFO Thread-1
>> org.apache.axis2.deployment.DeploymentEngine - No modules directory
>> was found under D:\Sakai\webapps\sakai-axis2\WEB-INF.
>>
>> 2009-08-04 16:38:33,816  INFO Thread-1
>> org.apache.axis2.deployment.ModuleDeployer - Deploying module:
>> addressing-1.4 - file:/d:/sakai/webapps/sakai-axis2/WEB-INF/lib/
>> axis2-1.4.jar
>>
>> java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
>>
>>       at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>>
>>       at
>> sun
>> .reflect
>> .NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
>>
>>       at
>> sun
>> .reflect
>> .DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl
>> .invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
>>
>>       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
>>
>>       at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:295)
>>
>>       at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:433)




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