Installing Confluence as a service on XP-64 fails due to 32-bit binaries of Tomcat

Confluence runs fine except when trying to set it up as a service. Registering the service using service.bat works fine. However, when trying to start the service windows indicates an error 0 is returned by tomcat.

When taking a look in the logs, the following error messages are found (jakarta_service_DDMMYYYY.log):

[2008-06-30 23:40:21] [info] Running Service...
[2008-06-30 23:40:21] [info] Starting service...
[2008-06-30 23:40:21] [174 javajni.c] [error] %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
[2008-06-30 23:40:21] [947 prunsrv.c] [error] Failed creating java C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll
[2008-06-30 23:40:21] [1202 prunsrv.c] [error] ServiceStart returned 1
[2008-06-30 23:40:25] [info] Run service finished.
[2008-06-30 23:40:25] [info] Procrun finished.

After replacing the tomcat.exe and tomcatw.exe binaries by 64-bit versions, downloaded from the internet everything seems to work fine.

The following links are related:

• http://forums.atlassian.com/message.jspa?messageID=257280313 (core problem not found)
• http://threebit.net/mail-archive/tomcat-users/msg11584.html (32-64 bit problem identified, workaround suggested)

I think either the installation guide should be adjusted to indicate this problem for 64-bit users (current verions) or the installation package should be adjusted such that the right version of tomcat is called, depending on the OS (new versions).