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

Thu Jun 13 06:25:58 PDT 2013

Hi Mark.

Great news I have it Working At least Partially now.

I followed your advice stopping Tomcat as a Windows service. This do not
work by stopping it in the service manager. I suppose because the correct
shutdown messages is not sent to Tomcat.

So I disabled the service and restart my PC (Once more go windows L)

The I started Tomcat from the command line by copying the .BAT files from
the demo folder. I have no error messages and once I received the info
message 

INFO: Server startup in 217668 ms

I tried again and now it shows correctly in my Browser. J

Thank you very mush.

One thing this is fine for my local Dev Machine. But on the live server I
really need to run Tomcat as a service. Any idea where to start looking for
the problem why it do not work when running as a service. I do have the
following Environment variables set.

CATALINA_HOME = c:\opt\tomcat7

JAVA_HOME = C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_21

JAVA_OPTS = -server -Xms512m -Xmx1024m -XX:PermSize=128m
-XX:MaxPermSize=512m -XX:NewSize=192m -XX:MaxNewSize=384m
-Djava.awt.headless=true -Dhttp.agent=Sakai
-Dorg.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.STRICT_QUOTE_ESCAPING=false
-Dsun.lang.ClassLoader.allowArraySyntax=true

MAVEN_OPTS = -Xms512m -Xmx1024m -XX:PermSize=256m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m

MAVEN2_HOME = C:\opt\apache-maven-3.0.5

SUBVERSION_HOME = C:\opt\svn\

And the relevant bin folders is all added to the PATH environment variable.

Or is CygWin really the only way to run a java service reliably on a windows
machine.

BTW my OS is Windows 7 64 bit

Thank you for the help so far.

From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org
[mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Mark J.
Norton
Sent: 13 June 2013 01:18 PM
To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] [Deploying Sakai] How to Run/Install Tomcat as
a Service for Sakai 2.9.1 Demo?

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
<mailto:vivihodal at gmail.com> <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
<mailto:vivihodal at gmail.com> <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
<mailto:azeckoski at unicon.net> <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+Set
up+Walkthrough

-AZ

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Viviana Hidalgo
<mailto:vivihodal at gmail.com> <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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