[Building Sakai] [Deploying Sakai] How to Run/Install Tomcat as a Service for Sakai 2.9.1 Demo?

[Mark J. Norton]

I run Sakai in a Windows7 environment. I can state clearly that Tomcat 
under Windows doesn't generate a catalina.out file.  Instead, output is 
written to a Windows console.  Starting Tomcat as a Windows service 
suppresses the display of the console.  Try this:

 1. In your Services Window, find Tomcat and turn it off (if running).
 2. Bring up a Windows Command Shell ("cmd" in the Run box).
 3. Change directory (CD) to "%CATALINA_OUT%/bin".
 4. Enter the command "startup".

This will bring Tomcat up and should display a console window. Messages 
will scroll by pretty fast, but you should be able to see the last 
error.  Copy that and send it to the this list.

There are times when you just need to get access to the catalina.out 
file on Windows.  That's a bit more complicated.  It involves installing 
CygWin (a Linux emulator for Windows).  With CygWin in stalled, you can 
launch Tomcat as a Linux task, which in turn creates a catalina.out 
file.  Assuming you have CygWin installed:

 1. In your Bash shell, enter "cd $CATALINA_OUT".  then "cd bin".
 2. Run "bash tomcat.sh".  Tomcat will run in background.
 3. While tomcat is running, you can use "tail -f ../logs/catalina.out"
    to follow console messages.

The bash shell has a much longer history buffer than the Windows Command 
shell.  Also, you can open catalina.out as a file and do searches.

To shutdown Tomcat in Windows, use the "shutdown" command in the bin 
directory.  You can also just close the console window, though this 
doesn't always shut down cleanly.  In CygWin, use the "bash shutdown.sh" 
command in the bin directory.  If necessary, you can also kill the 
Tomcat task, but that isn't recommended.

- Mark Norton




On 6/13/2013 6:43 AM, Aaron Zeckoski wrote:
> I don't know a ton about windows though I have worked with some
> windows servers on EC2 that had Sakai running on them and as long as
> tomcat was running when I logged out it tended to keep running. Maybe
> someone else on list can shed some light on this if you add some
> details about what the OS version is and what steps you are taking on
> logout?
>
> -AZ
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 1:56 AM, Viviana Hidalgo <vivihodal at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Aaron.
>>
>> I followed the instructions mentioned in the page you gave me and Sakai
>> starts locally and remotely, however if I close windows session in the
>> server, sakai can't be accessed anymore by a client.
>>
>> Is it necessary to configure something else in the setenv.bat file?
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your help!
>>
>> Saludos,
>>
>> Viviana Hidalgo Quintero.
>> Gracias.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Viviana Hidalgo <vivihodal at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi Aaron.
>>> Will it be the same instructions for Sakai 9,2,1 Demo version?
>>> I see it is mentioned some files that do not exist in the Sakai folder of
>>> the demo version.
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> Saludos,
>>>
>>> Viviana Hidalgo Quintero.
>>> Gracias.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Aaron Zeckoski <azeckoski at unicon.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>> I would suggest you do not use tomcat as a service. I suggest you
>>>> follow the tomcat portion of this guide which explains how to use the
>>>> zip version:
>>>>
>>>> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/BOOT/Development+Environment+Setup+Walkthrough
>>>>
>>>> -AZ
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Viviana Hidalgo <vivihodal at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Hi there!
>>>>> I'm new to sakai...could you please help me?
>>>>>
>>>>> I've found in here
>>>>>
>>>>> (https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=69273826)
>>>>> instructions to install Tomcat as a Windows service, but it basically
>>>>> requires C:\tomcat\bin> service.bat, which I can't find in the sakai
>>>>> folder
>>>>> of the demo version, so I'm lost and don't know how to install Tomcat
>>>>> as a
>>>>> Windows service in my server.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>>>
>>>>> Saludos,
>>>>>
>>>>> Viviana Hidalgo Quintero.
>>>>> Gracias.
>>>>>
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>
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