Setting default locale for Tomcat Service in Windows XP

Question

I have installed Apache Tomcat 6 as a Service in a Windows XP computer (French)

My problem is that Tomcat itself and all webapps (Sonar and Hudson) now show french messages. I want English messages of course so I went to the "Regional Settings" window in Control panel and changed everything to English (US)

Tomcat however is still in French. Nothing changed at all.

I suspect that because it runs as a service it does not pick the settings from control panel.

So is there any way to trick the Tomcat JVM so that it uses English instead of French? I have sys admin access to the machine (XP PRO French)

Thank you

Answer 1

You need to set user.language and user.region appropriately,

e.g.

java -Duser.language=en -Duser.region=CA

in your Tomcat startup (probably catalina.bat). Check this link for more info, and for references to the sets of valid ISO codes for the above.

Answer 2

The Tomcat manager was showing up in French for me, despite the fact that I tried some of the suggestions above. The issue turned out to be browser specific. Chrome had "French" listed as one of my languages and as soon as I removed it from the list in preferences and refreshed the page, Tomcat showed up in English. I hope that will be helpful for anybody else in the future who is having this sort of problem.

Answer 3

Specify language option in service parameters.

$Tomcat/bin/javaw.exe move to Java tab and specify -Duser.language=en -Duser.region=CA at Java Options:

Answer 4

Regional Settings are per user and services are run as a different user (which one is used for each service can be checked in Control Panel / Administrative Tools / Services ).

So you changed the settings for the user account you used to log in, while the Tomcat service is run under a different account.