Tomcat 6.0.18 service will not start on a windows server

java tomcat windows-server-2003
ScArcher2 picture ScArcher2 · Sep 26, 2008 · Viewed 40.3k times · Source

I installed Tomcat 6.0.18 on a windows server 2003 box and it will not start as a service. I'm running it with jdk 1.6.0_07.

It runs when I start it with tomcat6.exe.

I got a vague error in the System Event Log on Windows.

The Apache Tomcat 6 service terminated with service-specific error 0 (0x0).

Answer

anjanb picture anjanb · Sep 26, 2008

I'll bite it :-)

Tomcat Service on windows is dependent on the MS C Runtime library msvcr71.dll. As long as it is in the path, the service will start just fine.

Just to prevent your other windows to be forced to use this version of the runtime library, you might want to copy the DLL to just the tomcat bin path instead of windows\system32.

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