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Some time ago I wrote an installation guide for Apache Tomcat and IIS 7.0 using the JK 1.2 connector which you can find elsewhere on this blog. However, in response to a number of questions being asked on the Microsoft IIS forums I have decided to write a new installation guide for Apache Tomcat using the Microsoft IIS Application Request Routing (ARR) module. Using the IIS ARR module means that there is no longer any need to use the Tomcat JK 1.2 ISAPI Connector.

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Some time ago I wrote an installation guide for Apache Tomcat and IIS 6.0 using the JK 1.2 connector which you can find elsewhere on this blog. However, in response to a number of questions and comments on my blog and IIS forums I have decided to write a new installation guide for Apache Tomcat using the latest release of the JK 1.2 connector and IIS 7.0.

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I was recently asked a question about using SSL with Tomcat on IIS 6.0 and I had to confess that this was something I had never previously tried. So I decided to build a test platform and see if I could get it to work. I started by building an II 6.0 server with Tomcat and the JK 1.2 Connector as documented here : http://www.iisadmin.co.uk/?p=40

You can use any valid SSL certificate (including a self-signed certificate if you like) but in this example I used a 21-day trial SSL certificate from Thawte which you can get from here : http://www.thawte.com

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Some time ago I wrote an installation guide for Tomcat and IIS 6.0 using the JK2 connector which you can find elsewhere on this blog. However since I wrote that previous guide the JK2 connector for Tomcat has been deprecated and is no longer supported. In response to a number of questions and comments on my blog I have decided to write a new installation guide for Tomcat using the latest release of the JK 1.2 connector.

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I recently had to install Apache Tomcat 6 on a Windows Server 2003 machine and I ran into a problem which prevented the Tomcat service from starting. I had already installed the Java Runtime and then installed Tomcat following the default options. However, the Tomcat service just wouldn’t start. I looked in the Windows System Event Log and saw the rather unhelpful error message shown below. So, in order to try and get a handle on the problem I decided to run some monitoring on the server whilst the Tomcat process was starting. This is what I discovered.

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