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Installing Live Forms as a Windows Service
To install as frevvo recommends that you install as a Windows service only on a 32 or 64 bit Windows , follow system. Follow the instructions listed here. If your operating system is 64 bit, there is an additional step that must be performed. Windows (32/64 bit)
can be installed and started/stopped as a Windows Service. Batch files provided in the <frevvo-home> directory can install, configure and monitor the service.:
The batch files provided are:
- Install-Service.bat file - Double - click this file to install the service.
- Configure-Service.bat - Double-click this file to edit the Shutdown/Startup mode. If installing on a Windows x64 system, set both to Java instead of jvm. Change change the Startup type to Automatic or change the name of the service if desired. See below.
- Monitor-Service.bat - Double-click this file to monitor the bundle service.
- Remove-Service.bat - removes the service. You may have to close the Windows Services panel and reopen it to see the change.
will run as a Windows Service when whether you are using the Java Development the Development Kit (JDK) or Java Runtime Environment (JRE).
Follow these steps to install as a Windows Service:
- Verify that
- that these steps have
- have been performed to add .
- JAVA_HOME as a system Environment Variable with the appropriate path to your JDK or JRE installation directory.
- Copy the x64 Windows Binaries, tomcat8.exe, tomcat8w.exe and tcnative-1.dll from the <frevvo-home>\tomcat\bin\x64 directory. Replace the existing binaries in the <frevvo-home>/tomcat/bin folder with the binaries from the <frevvo-home>\tomcat\bin\x64 directory.
- Navigate to the directory where the batch files are located: usually <frevvo-home>. Double-click Execute the Install-Service batch file to execute it.by double clicking on it. The Install-Service batch file will put the frevvoforms service in the Services list in manual startup mode. The service will be called frevvoforms but the display name can be changed when you run the Configure-Service Batch file.
- Right click the Configure-Service batch file and select Run As Administrator. Execute the batch file.
- Change the Display Name of the frevvoforms service, if desired, and change the Startup Type to Automatic
- Click Apply and then ok to save your changes.
- Find the Services list for your operating system. The service should be listed. Start the Service.
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Make sure that the name of the directory where you installed does not have any spaces in it. |
Additional Step for Windows (64 bit)
If you want to install as a service on a x64 installation of Windows , you will need to perform one additional steps.
Make sure you have completed step 1 to configure the JDK Home environment variable with the correct path as discussed above.
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Verify that these steps have been performed to add JAVA_HOME as a system Environment Variable with the path to your JDK installation directory.
Copy the x64 Windows Binaries
Previous versions of the Windows binaries (executables and dlls) found in the <frevvo-home>/tomcat/bin folder were built for x86 (32-bit) architectures and will not work on a x64 architecture (64-bits). bundles tomcat version 8 binaries for the two architectures inside <frevvo-home>/tomcat/bin folders: <frevvo-home>\tomcat\bin\x64 and <frevvo-home>\tomcat\bin\x86. If you see these errors, the binaries in <frevvo-home>\tomcat\bin may need to be replaced.
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Live Forms fails to install/start as windows service
If running c:\frevvo\Install Service fails to install the service and fails to run as a windows service, make sure the %JAVA_HOME%/bin is added to the system PATH Environment Variable.
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