How to configure Liferay as a Tomcat Manager service in Windows #

1. http://www.mbaworld.com/docs/windows-service-howto.html
2. Open a Command Prompt and go to: C:\Portals\mycustomer\liferay-5.2.0\tomcat-6.0.18\bin
3. Edit the service.bat; add this to the installation line: --DependsOn MSSQL$SQLExpress;SomeOtherService so that it looks like this in the end: "%EXECUTABLE%" IS%SERVICE_NAME% --StartClass org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap --StopClass org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap --StartParams start --StopParams stop --DependsOn MSSQL$SQLExpress;SomeOtherService
4. Install the service: service.bat install MyCustomer
5. Create a shortcut for Startup/Shutdown/Configuration: C:\Portals\mycustomer\liferay-5.2.0\tomcat-6.0.18\bin\tomcat6w.exe ESMyCustomer
6. Double click on the shortcut, and change these config options:

• General Tab:
• Change Description to: Apache Tomcat MyCustomer
• Change Startup Type to: Automatic

• Logging Tab:
• Change level to: Info

• Java Tab (Java Options): -XX:MaxPermSize=128m -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -Duser.timezone=GMT -Djava.security.auth.login.config=C:\Portals\mycustomer\liferay-5.2.0\tomcat-6.0.18\conf\jaas.config

-Dorg.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.ENABLE_CLEAR_REFERENCES=false

• Java Tab:
• Set Initial memory pool to: 256
• Set Maximum memory pool to: 1200

• Startup Tab:
• Change working path to: C:\Portals\mycustomer\liferay-5.2.0\tomcat-6.0.18\bin

• Shutdown Tab:
• Change working path to: C:\Portals\mycustomer\liferay-5.2.0\tomcat-6.0.18\bin