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Tomcat 7 startup.bat opens in new window

 
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Hello. I'm new to deploying in tomcat, and I'm facing some problems trying to install tomcat 7 in a Windows computer.

I could install and start tomcat without problems (the zip distribution from apache.org). However, due to some requirements I can't start it as a service.

I read in a lot of places that I can start it with >catalina start, which would start apache in the background and redirect the output to the log files. However, what's happening is that it starts the server in a new window, and the output is printed to console and not saved to any log file.

I would like to know if I'm missing some additional configuration, or any tips on the subject.

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Rabindranath
 
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Welcome to the JavaRanch, Rabindranath!

Tomcat's console is not actually a log file, just the stdout and stderr output from the Tomcat JVM. The stock scripts for running Tomcat usually redirect it to catalina.out, but that's just a convention and not actually an architectural constraint. Which is one reason why we tell people that webapps should do system.out.println - you never know where the print output may be sent.

So you should be able to create a "log file" by starting Tomcat with a "catalina start >C:\TOMCAT_HOME\logs\catalina.out" (adjust path to fit your preferences). Since the pop-up window is provided by Windows, if you redirect both stdout and stderr ("2>"), Windows shouldn't pop up that second window, since it's only provided when a stdio output needs a place to present itself.

There are other ways of running commands in Windows that avoid the second window as well, but I'm out of practice on them.
 
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Thanks for your response.

I've already tried to redirect stdout and stderr but it doesn't work. I also tried to edit the catalina.bat file itself and add the redirection parameters right at the command invocation but the result is the same: the additional window keeps poping up with all the output being shown there and the log files are left empty.

Btw, I do use log4j as logging framework, but just using the console appender because I want to see the output in eclipse and no log files while in development and didn't wanted to have to change the configuration specifically for production, so I assumed that the appserver would take care of the redirection. I'm open for suggestions if there are alternative ways to achieve that (log output in console for development but to a file in production).

Thanks in advance.
 
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I don't know about Tomcat 7, but the Tomcat 6 catalina.bat contains the following:



SO - it looks like using "start" is what causes the new window, I suggest you try "run"

Bill
 
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Thanks, that did the trick.
 
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