You may need to run Liferay Tomcat bundle (for both Portal and Social Office) as Windows services. Right?

Best practices#

Best combination should be

• 1) Window server 2008 64-bit, 64-bit JDK 1.6 and Tomcat 64-bit.

• 2) Window server 2003 32-bit, 32-bit JDK 1.6 and Tomcat 32-bit.

Limitation for 2) - only 1024MB (JVM parameter) is available.

Current installation: Window server 2008 64-bit, 64-bit JDK 1.6 and Tomcat 32-bit. This is the reason that

a) Tomcat as a Windows service does not work; b) staring time is longer.

Solution: using 1) Window server 2008 64-bit, 64-bit JDK 1.6 and Tomcat 64-bit.

Then we should get:

a) Tomcat as a windows service, JVM can be set as 2048MB or bigger

b) Staring time should be shorter.

How to achieve it?#

The following are sample steps to achieve the goal: Window server 2008 64-bit, 64-bit JDK 1.6 and Tomcat 64-bit.

1) Install Windows Server 2008 (64-bit)

2) Install 64-bit JDK and set $JAVA_HOME

3) Install Liferay-Tomcat 6 bundle

4) Set $JAVA_HOME in $TOMCAT_AS_DIR/bin/setenv.bat

5) Rename tomcat6.exe and tomcat6w.exe at $TOMCAT_AS_DIR/bin/ to a whatsoever names.

6) Download tomcat6.exe and tomcat6w.exe from

Tomcat 6 x64

(for latest 64 bit binaries, refer to http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi)

And drop them to $TOMCAT_AS_DIR/bin/

7) Start service.bat install tomcat6;

8) Use >tomcat6w.exe ES tomcat6

9) Append these in Java Options:

-XX:MaxPermSize=512m

10) set both Initial and Maximum memory pool to 2048 or bigger;

11) Click on General tab;

12) Click start;

That’s it.

Reference#

Tomcat 6 in Windows 64bit and a 64-JDK 1.6 - JVM -Xmx2048MB