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

[Matthew Jones]

Yes, you set up tomcat as a windows service. There's nothing
specific/special about Sakai related to this. Very few people in the
community run Sakai in production on Windows anymore. I used to run the
only community QA windows server at Michigan and ran it as a service, but
that was 2-3 years ago.

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/windows-service-howto.html
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=69273826


On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Viviana Hidalgo <vivihodal at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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