Cant get Tomcat6.0 to work with Windows 7 Environment

Question

Prior to upgrading to windows 7, I was able to use Tomcat 6.0, but when I upgraded to the new Windows, and downloaded Eclipse EE, and downloaded the apache content, I am unable to get Apache to run. When I attempt to start my apacher server through either system tray, or even windows services, it gives the followign error screen.

"Windows could not start the Apache Tomcat 6 on local computer. For more information review the system event log. Refer to server specific error code 0."

I have been able to locate some forums about error code 0, and some other documentation on this problem, but none of the solutions seems to work.

One of the solutions I came across said to take the msvcr71.dll (mscvrt.dll on new platforms) and put it into the bin folder of apache. This also did not work.

Does anybody know a fix for this problem, or a way to get around it so I can get my server up and running thanks.

Answer 1

"Windows could not start the Apache Tomcat 6 on local computer. For more information review the system event log. Refer to server specific error code 0."

I have had exactly this problem when running Tomcat on Windows 2003 server. Final solution was to configure Tomcat to use C:\Path\To\jre6\bin\client\jvm.dll as JVM through the Java tab of its properties which you can open by doubleclicking the system tray icon. I unfortunately don't recall anymore what dll file it pointed before, but it was wrong. See if that helps.

Answer 2

I had a problem with tomcat 6.0.20 and windows 7, where it wouldn't start up because it needed to run as an administrator, it didnt bother to tell me; just refused. You can have it run as an administrator by right clicking on the application and click on the "Run as administrator" option.

If you are starting it from eclipse you may need to do this with eclipse as well, so it inherits correctly.