Setting default locale for Tomcat Service in Windows XP

Question

I have installed Apache Tomcat 6 as a Service in a Windows XP computer (French)

My problem is that Tomcat itself and all webapps (Sonar and Hudson) now show french messages. I want English messages of course so I went to the "Regional Settings" window in Control panel and changed everything to English (US)

Tomcat however is still in French. Nothing changed at all.

I suspect that because it runs as a service it does not pick the settings from control panel.

So is there any way to trick the Tomcat JVM so that it uses English instead of French? I have sys admin access to the machine (XP PRO French)

Thank you

Answer 1

You need to set user.language and user.region appropriately,

e.g.

java -Duser.language=en -Duser.region=CA

in your Tomcat startup (probably catalina.bat). Check this link for more info, and for references to the sets of valid ISO codes for the above.

Answer 2

Specify language option in service parameters.

$Tomcat/bin/javaw.exe move to Java tab and specify -Duser.language=en -Duser.region=CA at Java Options:

Answer 3

catalina.bat is wrong place of course ir u are using tomcat as service.

If u install tomcat as service with tomcat installer from tomcats website, use approach pointed out by Rudy.

If u install tomcat as service by hand with service.bat, u must modify it before using. Locate --JvmOptions directive at end of the file and add smth like this:

-Duser.language=lv;-Duser.region=LV;....

Note that options are delimited with ; not spaces.