I installed Tomcat 6.0.18 on a windows server 2003 box and it will not start as a service.
I'm running it with jdk 1.6.0_07.
It runs when I start it with tomcat6.exe.
I got a vague error in the System Event Log on Windows.
The Apache Tomcat 6 service terminated with service-specific error 0 (0x0).
Best Answer
I'll bite it :-)
Tomcat Service on windows is dependent on the MS C Runtime library msvcr71.dll. As long as it is in the path, the service will start just fine.
Just to prevent your other windows to be forced to use this version of the runtime library, you might want to copy the DLL to just the tomcat bin path instead of windows\system32.