Earl,

I had run Tomcat on a Windows XP machine a number of years ago, and I assume Orbeon probably would have worked without problems.  Windows admin authorization can be completely unpredictable.  Is your user account set to have administrator privileges?  You could try that, but even administrators are sometimes locked out of necessary functions. 

You could try installing Tomcat into a folder where you have permission (in your own documents and settings folder, for example) and then place orbeon.war into the webapps folder in that Tomcat location.  Whether or not Windows will allow you to execute the Tomcat startup script is another question.

Is running the server in a vmware or virtual box instance of Linux an option?  I think you should be able to work it out so that you can edit the xforms files in your editor of choice in windows and the changes are reflected in the server on your virtual machine, for example by creating a Windows/Samba share in your host that your development instance can access.

Ethan

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Morton, Earl D <[hidden email]> wrote:

I'm having trouble with installing Orbeon Forms and Apache Tomcat on my new Windows 7 laptop. Specifically, I keep running into access restrictions.

I first installed Tomcat in its default folder, which is under Program Files. As indicated in the Orbeon Forms instructions, I unzipped orbeon.war in a folder under the Tomcat installation. That seemed to work at first, but when I tried to walk through the Orbeon Forms tutorial, Windows denied me permission to modify any of the files, I assume because they are under Program Files.

So I reinstalled Tomcat in a separate folder, outside of Program Files, but then it wouldn't run at all. I'm not sure why, but I wonder if another new Windows security policy only allows programs to execute from Program Files.

So I reinstalled Tomcat back in Program Files, and unzipped orbeon.war in a separate folder outside of Program Files. According to the Orbeon documentation, for Tomcat to find it, I have to change a configuration option in Tomcat, but that configuration file is under Program Files, so Windows won't let me change it, either.

In all of this I have been logged into the computer as the Administrator.

One more thing: Regardless of where Tomcat is installed, when I boot the computer, I get a message telling me that Tomcat can't run because "access is denied."

Can anyone give me a clue as to what I'm doing wrong? I assume that it is possible to use Orbeon Forms and Tomcat on Windows 7.

Thanks!

Earl Morton

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