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Tomcat Service Fails to Start

PostPosted:Tue Nov 25, 2025 1:40 am
by coarsearri
During the manual installation process, where the user downloads the latest stable OpenKM WAR file and deploys it on a separately installed Tomcat instance; the Tomcat service often fails to initialize or crashes immediately after starting, producing generic or misleading errors in the Windows Event Viewer.

I see a few things like this:

- The `service.bat` script executes successfully, creating the Tomcat service, but the service fails to start via `services.msc`.

- The standard Tomcat log often contains no entry or only a partial initialization record, making root cause analysis impossible.

Any help is welcome!