Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office 4.2.0 as windows service on windows server 2008 R2 Server Issue

Anil Wale wrote:
> Hi Support Team,
>
>    We are trying to setup Libre Office as windows service on windows server 2008 R2 Server, using 
> following entry on regedit, but after this service not get started.
>
> C:\Program Files (x86)\LibreOffice 4\program\ soffice.exe -headless -nofirststartwizard 
> -accept="socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.Service"
>
>      Can you please help me to setup LibreOffice_4.2.0 as a windows service or please send me steps.

I don't even know if LibreOffice can be run as a Windows service. 
Perhaps someone else here might know. You can't just run any random 
program as a service - it has to be designed to respond to the commands 
to start and stop the service, and probably some other things. Assuming 
LibreOffice can run as a service, configuring a service needs more than 
just a single value in the registry; e.g. there are others specifying 
whether the service should automatically start, what happens on errors, etc.

There are several problems with that command anyway:
- With spaces in the path to the executable, that has to be enclosed in 
double-quotes ("). As it is, Windows will try starting C:\Program (which 
probably doesn't even exist) as an executable, passing the rest as 
parameters.
- There should not be a space between "program\" and "soffice.exe".
- As Piet mentioned, it looks like double hyphens are needed for 
LibreOffice parameters:

https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Starting_the_Software_With_Parameters

So that would be:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\LibreOffice 4\program\soffice.exe" --headless 
--nofirststartwizard 
--accept="socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.Service"

Rather than setting up a service, it's probably easiest to just auto-run 
that command by adding an entry under 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\ - 
create a string value with whatever name you like (e.g. "LibreOffice 
Service") and the command as the data. Before doing that though, it's 
probably easiest to experiment and make sure the intended command works 
by running it from a command prompt. If you did that with your command, 
it outputs:
  'C:\Program' is not recognized...
giving a pretty good hint to the first problem.

Mark.


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