Auto Start Presentation Server on Production Machine

[DavidRSchaller]

See thread: http://www.laszlosystems.com/developers/community/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1205

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(There must be a simple answer here, thats why noone else has asked it) I would like to install LPS on the Windows 2000 Server Production machine. I don't see any service running for LPS, so how can I set the LPS server to automatically start on a reboot of the machine?
Thanks

[d~l]

there are a number of ways of autostarting ..

here are just two utilities I use myself ..

Mike Lin's Startup Control Panel (http://www.mlin.net)

after installation you will find the Startup link in Control Panel .. launch ..go to startup tab .. right click .. new

select startup.bat in your Tomcat bin

tick the selection to autostart

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another useful utility is

nncron (http://www.nncron.ru)

this runs in system tray

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p.s.

Yet another way ..

You should see Apache Tomcat in Service Manager and you can set this to automatic start.

[DavidRSchaller]

Thanks for the fast reply, however,

Mike Lin's Startup Control Panel seems to only launch applications after a user login not before,

nncron lite doesn't provide the ability to launch apps as service, only the pro version. I could buy but hoping for a better way.

Apache Tomcat does not display under services control panel. I did install LPS DS with built in Tomcat, perhaps that is a diffirent build than a stand-alone Tomcat?

I am going to look into svrany.exe in Window NT Resource Kit as directed by a coworker.

I should mention that I am running IIS, not Apache web server. I don't know if this makes a difference.

How is everyone else doing this?

[bloch]

You can install tomcat as an NT service if you want. The LPS copy of tomcat doesn't come configured this way though.

Best to get your own copy of tomcat, install as NT service, and either

1) copy over the lps web app into $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps or

2) read http://www.laszlosystems.com/developers/community/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1144&highlight=minimal+install

and the one in points to about making a minimal webapp

-Eric