Running as a Windows service

Running ArchivesSpace as a Windows service requires some additional configuration.

You can use Apache procrun to configure ArchivesSpace to run as a Windows service. We have provided a service.bat script that will attempt to configure procrun for you (under launcher\service.bat).

To run this script, first you need to download procrun. Extract the files and copy the prunsrv.exe and prunmgr.exe to your ArchivesSpace directory.

To find the path to Java, “Start” > “Control Panel” > “Java”, Select “Java” tab. You’ll see the path there. It will look something like C:\Program Files (x86)\Java

You also need to be sure that Java is in your system path and also to create JAVA_HOME as a global environment variable. To add Java to your path, edit you %PATH% environment variable to include the directory of your java executable ( it will be something like C:\Program Files (x86)\Java ). To add JAVA_HOME, add a new system variable and put the directory where java was installed ( something like C:\Program Files (x86)\Java ).

Environement varialbe be found by “Start” > “Control Panel” , search for environment. Click “edit the system environment variables”. In the section System Variables, find the PATH environment variable and select it. Click Edit. If the PATH environment variable does not exist, click New. In the Edit System Variable (or New System Variable) window, specify the value of the PATH environment variable. Click OK. Close all remaining windows by clicking OK. Do the same for JAVA_HOME

Before setting up the ArchivesSpace service, you should also configure ArchivesSpace to run against MySQL. Be sure that the MySQL connector jar file is in the lib directory, in order for the service setup script to add it to the application’s classpath.

Lastly, for the service to shutdown cleanly, uncomment and change these lines in config/config.rb:

AppConfig[:use_jetty_shutdown_handler] = true
AppConfig[:jetty_shutdown_path] = "/xkcd"

This enables a shutdown hook for Jetty to respond to when the shutdown action is taken.

You can now execute the batch script from your ArchivesSpace root directory from the command line with launcher\service.bat. This will configure the service and provide two executables: ArchivesSpaceService.exe (the service) and ArchivesSpaceServicew.exe (a GUI monitor)

There are several options to launch the service. The easiest is to open the GUI monitor and click “Launch”.

Alternatively, you can start the GUI monitor and minimize it in your system tray with:

ArchivesSpaceServicew.exe //MS//

To execute the service from the command line, you can invoke:

ArchivesSpaceService.exe //ES//

Log output will be placed in your ArchivesSpace log directory.

Please see the procrun documentation for more information.