Apache Tomcat 7.0.40 disappears after 1 second

Question

I downloaded apache-tomcat-7.0.40 for Windows 8 and I followed the instructions by using the C:\\apache-tomcat-7.0.40> startup.bat at my command prompt. The tomc

Answer 1

Go to your tomcat/bin folder. Edit startup.bat file, comment out last but one line which says:

call "%EXECUTABLE%" run >..\logs\OutputFile.log 2>&1 start %CMD_LINE_ARGS% run >..\logs\OutputFile.log 2>&1

comment out using 'rem' beginning of it.

rem call "%EXECUTABLE%" run >..\logs\OutputFile.log 2>&1 start %CMD_LINE_ARGS% run >..\logs\OutputFile.log 2>&1 

then Console will be remain open. if this line is commented then that means it says to close the console and write the output in some external log file.