Getting Tomcat Apache To Run On Microsoft Windows 7

Posted by Jithen (J) Singh in Development on Monday, May 4, 2009 | 29 comments

So the last few days I have been updating my work laptop to Microsoft Windows 7 Release Candidate. I have now successfully reinstalled most of my existing software. This also includes a new installation of ArcGIS 9.3.1. I am very impressed with Windows 7 Release Candidate, Microsoft has done a great job with this release. A few new features but also tons of bug fixes.

One of the last pieces of software I needed to reinstall was Tomcat Apache. I use Tomcat Apache for a few web applications and thus the need to install this. I downloaded the latest version. Tomcat Apache 6.0.18. Installation is as per normal. Attempting to start the Tomcat Apache process you get the following:

Tomcat Apache fails to start with the above error. The error isn’t very informative so digging further by looking at the Apache Tomcat logs you get the following:

Having a look at the logs we can see that the JRE is reporting a missing module which cannot be found. The file that is missing is named: msvcr71.dll. While this file should exist in your JRE folder, Tomcat Apache cannot access it.

The simple fix for this problem is to copy the msvcr71.dll from your JRE folder to the Apache Tomcat /bin folder as per screenshot below.

Attempting to start the Tomcat Apache service again will work fine.

While the fix is really simple, it too me a while to figure this one out and research it. I am not sure whether this applies to x86 or x64 versions or both but I am running Windows 7 x64. There are a few issues I have found with ArcGIS 9.3.1 and ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 on Windows 7 so I’ll blog about them as soon as I can.

Tags: apache-tomcat, microsoft-windows, microsoft-windows-7

29 Responses to “ “Getting Tomcat Apache To Run On Microsoft Windows 7”

Paco Camarillo says:

January 1, 1970 at 12:00 pm

Thanks bro, it was a great help for me………

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avis says:

January 1, 1970 at 12:00 pm

thx… it also fixed my apache in xampp lite =p

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ply says:

January 1, 1970 at 12:00 pm

Big thanks!

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MethoD says:

January 1, 1970 at 12:00 pm

I’ve successfully started tomcat on windows 7 RC 7127.

I’ve changed tomcat folder permission by adding write privilege to tomcat folder.

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Mr Trung says:

January 1, 1970 at 12:00 pm

Thanks for yur help. I control my apps now ^^ thanks

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Benevid says:

January 1, 1970 at 12:00 pm

Thanks’s ….still running

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Vincent says:

January 1, 1970 at 12:00 pm

Thanks! It worked great.

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Patryk says:

January 1, 1970 at 12:00 pm

Great! It worked like a charm! Didn’t notice any other compatibility issues regarding Windows 7. I think Microsoft finally did some really good work with this OS.

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Lenin says:

January 1, 1970 at 12:00 pm

Thanking you

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inFame says:

January 1, 1970 at 12:00 pm

U r the man!!!!

Thanks a lot!!!

Eres grande hermano!!! En verdad una gran ayuda para los que apenas comenzamos con Apache

Gracias otra vez!!!

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Roopesh says:

January 1, 1970 at 12:00 pm

Thanks a lot, U made my job easy….

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Tostau says:

January 1, 1970 at 12:00 pm

Hi, this tutorial seems very usefulll… but it doesn’t work for me..

I have a Windows 7 Professional on a Dell XPS16, i tried to installa Apache Tomcat 6.0 and i had the problem you fix… unfortunately i haven’t solve it. In my Java installation folder i haven’t the file <msvcr71.dll> so i downloaded it but it still doesn’t work… I reboot several times. I have java 1.6 installed, could it be that the problem??

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Java在windows7下的配置问题 says:

January 1, 1970 at 12:00 pm

RE: Getting Tomcat Apache To Run On Microsoft Windows 7

windows7下tomcat的安装问题

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Kalle says:

January 11, 2009 at 2:14 am

Thank you! Worked great

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Michael says:

January 11, 2009 at 6:07 am

I can’t get it to work with Windows 7 64 bit. Any ideas?

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Antonio says:

February 10, 2009 at 3:26 am

Muy buen consejo, ude hacer funcionar conesto mi tomcat 6 en Windows 7 x64 gracias !

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Chen says:

May 7, 2009 at 8:46 pm

I copied the DLL and it still doesnt work (Windows 7 RC). any idea why? thanks

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Felipe Messina says:

May 10, 2009 at 2:24 am

THANK YOU VERY MUCH about this fix, you SAVE MY LIFE =) . Thanks for share

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John Fiala says:

July 11, 2009 at 5:42 pm

Thanks a lot! This is just what I needed to get Tomcat working on Windows 7 Professional 64 bit.

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Pinux says:

August 12, 2009 at 12:19 am

Tnks a lot. Now it’s working fine!!!

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Martin says:

October 5, 2009 at 5:38 am

thanks a lot for this fix. i’m using win7 since beta problem with tomcat was the only one i had with this os.

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Angga Lingga says:

October 11, 2009 at 9:35 pm

Thanks a lot …

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karthik says:

January 9, 2010 at 8:02 pm

Thanks a lot…..

It’s working

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Arun says:

January 20, 2010 at 5:54 am

well, it works.
Thanks a lot.

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- jim says:
  
  January 20, 2010 at 3:26 pm
  
  thanks
  
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echo9 says:

January 21, 2010 at 6:49 am

i was getting an error:

javaw.exe – ordinal not found

the ordinal 2502 could not be located in the dynamic linked library
LIBEAY32.dll

this is whats the error window said^

and even after copying the dll into tomcat/bin it din’t worked out for me..

suggestions..anybody..?

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Nilesh says:

February 11, 2010 at 11:45 pm

I HAVE SOME PROBLEM IN TAOMCAT 6 THAT IS NOT WOTKING PROPERLY I HAVE SOME ERROR ACCESS IS DENIED.
BUT WHEN I INSTALL TOMCAT6 IT WORKING PROPERLY WHEN I RESTART MY SYSTEM AND THEN START TOMCAT6 THAT IS ERROR DISPLAY ACCES IS DENIED .
PLS GIVE ME SOME SOLUTION…

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LRL says:

February 21, 2010 at 10:07 pm

Thanks very much that worked a treat on Windows 7 X 64

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Adam says:

February 22, 2010 at 1:08 pm

This really seemed to help quite a few people. It didn’t do anything for me. Does anyone else have any ideas? Using 64 bit, redownload and installed tomcat and JDK etc., etc.

Any help would be appreciated.

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