Silent install of tomcat 4.1.31 on windows fails
- From: "Propes, Barry L" <barry.l.propes (at) citigroup.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 12:10:08 -0400
typically, when I've "installed Tomcat," and always on Windows, be it testing with a box at home or on a server at work, I've simply unipped it to my C or D drive.
But I was able to create it as a service nonetheless w/.o any additional registry keys.
I think it mainly needs the service set up under an admin acct.
Just FYI. Or I've at least played it safe and done it that way.
-----Original Message-----
From: ehawkes (at) sonicwall.com [mailto:ehawkes (at) sonicwall.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 6:46 PM
To: users (at) tomcat.apache.org
Cc: ehawkes (at) sonicwall.com
Subject: RE: Silent install of tomcat 4.1.31 on windows fails
Hi Mark,
Thanks for letting me know.
I am trying to work around the problem with tomcat
not appearing in the list of programs in
Windows Control Panel Add or Remove Programs.
What I tried is explained below. However, it isn't
completely successful. I think the problem has
something to do with tomcat running as a service.
Details follow:
Here are the applicable knowledge base articles for
adding or removing uninstallers to the
Windows Control Panel Add or Remove Programs.
Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314481
Windows 2000 Server (seems to be the same reg keys)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/247501
I added three registry keys in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\A
pache Tomcat 4.1
(Default) (value not set)
DisplayName Apache Tomcat 4.1 (remove only)
UninstallString <full path to the tomcat uninstall .exe file>
After adding these registry keys, Apache Tomcat appeared
in the Windows Control Panel Add or Remove Programs list.
Choosing it did run the tomcat uninstaller, but it was
not really successful in uninstalling tomcat.
The uninstaller could not remove the tomcat root directory,
and left about half the subdirectories inside. It did remove
the files in the tomcat root directory, including the
uninstaller, though. :-( After the uninstall finished, the
tomcat service was still running.
Stopping the tomcat service and deleting the tomcat directory
by hand did not finish the job. After rebooting, the tomcat
service was still running. I had to reinstall tomcat (making
sure to install it as a service) and then uninstall it by
double-clicking the uninstaller exe.
I wonder if this has something to do with the fact that I
don't install tomcat as a service? After tomcat has been
installed, our installer runs the tomcat.exe (Alexandria
Software Consulting) to make it into a service.
If this sounds plausible, can you tell me how the tomcat
uninstaller knows that tomcat is running as a service, and
what it does to deal with that? Perhaps I can still fix
this up myself.
Thanks,
Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Thomas [mailto:markt (at) apache.org]
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 8:34 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: Silent install of tomcat 4.1.31 on windows fails
ehawkes (at) sonicwall.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the confirmation. I also tested with
> 4.1.32 beta and had the same experience.
>
> I filed bug 40171 about this issue.
> http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40171
>
> I'm new to this list. Is there much likelihood of
> this getting fixed post-beta for 4.1.32, or is the beta
> really considered the release candidate?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
The fix is in progress and will be included in the 4.1.33 release. I
don't have any plans for a 4.1.33 release at the moment. When I get
around to calling the stability vote for 4.1.32 I don't as yet see any
reason for it not to be stable. Others may, of course, have other
views - that is why we vote ;)
Mark
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