Comments on: Alfresco – Tomcat as a Windows service

By: bajibabu

bajibabu — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:37:25 +0000

I am using 32bit windows xp.Alfresco is installed in C:\Alfresco and java is in
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_16.

By: Ivan Pleština

Ivan Pleština — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 06:23:47 +0000

Are you using 32 or 64 bit platform? Can you post exact OS, Java versions…

By: bajibabu

bajibabu — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:17:30 +0000

Hi thank you for reply.I tried to run with default settings.still i am getting below error.
started

[2010-04-12 18:15:20] [info] Running Service…
[2010-04-12 18:15:20] [info] Starting service…
[2010-04-12 18:15:20] [395 javajni.c] [error] CreateJavaVM Failed
[2010-04-12 18:15:20] [1000 prunsrv.c] [error] Failed initializing java C:\Alfresco\tomcat\bin\bootstrap.jar
[2010-04-12 18:15:20] [1269 prunsrv.c] [error] ServiceStart returned 2
[2010-04-12 18:15:20] [info] Run service finished.
[2010-04-12 18:15:20] [info] Procrun finished.

By: Ivan Pleština

Ivan Pleština — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:27:36 +0000

Try to run it with default alfresco settings, especially minimum memory sizes, and then fine tune it once you get it to run.

By: bajibabu

bajibabu — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:30:21 +0000

Hi thanq for nice documentation.I tried the same as instructed but the service is not starting.when i press start it is saying starting service and nothing is happening.Nothing is writing to log also.

By: Ivan Pleština

Ivan Pleština — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:15:12 +0000

I suggest that you take a look at alfresco.bat as a good starting point. You’ll see inside how they collect various java options into JAVA_OPTS variable. So just copy whatever they have into Java options area shown in the above picture except Xms, Xmx, and Xss parameters which have separate boxes.

Some sample would be although it’s fairly basic:
-Dcatalina.base=C:\Alfresco\tomcat
-Dcatalina.home=C:\Alfresco\tomcat
-Djava.endorsed.dirs=C:\Alfresco\tomcat\endorsed
-Djava.io.tmpdir=C:\Alfresco\tomcat\temp
-Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager
-Djava.util.logging.config.file=C:\Alfresco\tomcat\conf\logging.properties
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m

When you later optimize JVM those options would go in the same box.

By: GJ

GJ — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:58:20 +0000

Thanks Ivan, this makes live more simple.

I’m trying to install alfresco / tomcat as a service on windows7, but it won’t start
I have no real tomcat / java experience and I’m not sure which java options to set.
The Xms, Xmx, and Xss parameters are not the problem but what about the other Java options?

By: William Silva

William Silva — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:24:36 +0000

muoto good
You’re the guy ..
Do not ever stop …. ok
Thanks
A hug from Brazil ..
William Silva