Running two instances of Tomcat on same win2k box?

[Morgan Roth]

I need to establish separate instances of Tomcat on the same physical server for SIT and UAT testing. I decided on 2 separate installs of the whole package, but cannot seem to get them both to work simultaneously. (I did assign different ports to all ports I could find in the server.xml files). The first instance from the first install comes up, but not the second. Is there some resource that is in contention that I don't know about. Also, if I can't run 2 installs simultaneously is there anyway to run separate instances off of the same installation (which is fairly easy to do with packages like weblogic)
Thanks,
Morgan

[Eelco den Heijer]

you can run only one server per Tomcat, you can however run 2 services; within each service you define 1 host (you have to define 2 virtual hosts); from there you can run 2 environments on one box

Plan B: I guess you run 2 tomcats on one box too, you have to look careful in the settings of environment variables CATALINA_BASE and CATALINA_HOME of each of the installations...

[John Stream]

You can do it. I've got two instances running at the same time.
I've got CATALINA_HOME pointed to my primary Tomcat Install.
CATALINA_BASE pointed to my TEST Tomcat Install. I had to install Tomcat to two different directories obviously.

Check and doublecheck your ports. Also make sure your Windows 2000 service (if installed) shows your separate installation directory. And check your Start Menu shortcuts, they may point elsewhere.