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

[Viviana Hidalgo]

Hi there!

I installed the sakai binary version, however it happens the same: the
http://localhost:8080/portal works perfect locally or remotely but
only while the I'm logged in in the server. Is there any way of making
tomcat/sakai run even when the administrator sesion at the server
hasn't been started...something similar to a windows service?

Thanks a lot for any help!

Saludos,

Viviana Hidalgo Quintero.
Gracias.


On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Setting up tomcat as a windows device should be agnostic to Sakai or any
> other webapp. Instructions here
>
> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/windows-service-howto.html
>
> You probably can't use the demo so just grab tomcat and the Sakai binary and
> follow that method. Later you might want to build from source so having your
> own tomcat will help in that regard.
>
> Cheers
> Steve
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 15/06/2013, at 8:23, Viviana Hidalgo <vivihodal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Mark.
>
> Following the conversation that Pierre Kellerman started:
>
> I've unpacked the 2.9.1 Demo sakai into my server, set the enviroment
> variables for Java according to what I've been suggested in this mail
> list, and also have followed the instructions in this web page
> "https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/BOOT/Development+Environment+Setup+Walkthrough"
> for the Tomcat part.
>
> Once I enter %CATALINA_HOME%\bin\startup in the cmd, a tomcat window
> is opened and it displays what I'm showing you in the attached file;
> as you can see it stops when it gets to the message "2013-06-14
> 14:06:00,916  INFO Timer-1 org.sakaiproject.email.impl.BasicEmailServ
> ice - Preparing to send the mail digests for
> 20130614050000000]20130615050000000". At this point I can access the
> Sakai web site either locally (entering http://localhost:8080/portal
> in the browser in the server) or remotely (in a different computer
> entering in the browser http://serverip:8080/portal).
> However, if I log off the windows session in the server, the remote
> access (from a client computer) doesn't work anymore.
> I would like to know if there's anyway of setting Sakai up to work as
> a Windows service or similarly.
>
> Note: please note that in the Sakai/demo/bin folder there's no
> service.bat file, which I understand is used to set up tomcat as a
> windows service.
>
> I'm using Windows Web Server 20008 and Java version 1.7
>
> Thanks a lot for any help!
>
>
>
> Saludos,
>
> Viviana Hidalgo Quintero.
> Gracias.
>
> <Tomcat_Window.txt>
>
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