Ok, started out with 10-user licenses for Confluence and JIRA. Now, Management is drooling and getting anxious to get 25user licenses except I took 2.6.2 apart to install Crowd and took out the entire system.
Prefer Solaris but stuck in a Windows-only place. Launched start_crowd.bat from a command tool with admin privs. I can only do screen shots at this point since it's not happy enough to start logging anything.
INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor C:\Program Files\Atlassian\atlassian-crowd-2.7.0\apache-tomcat\conf\Catalina\localhost\crowd.html
No Spring WebApplicationInitializer types detected on classpath
then
Unable to move C:\Program Files\Atlassian\atlassian-crowd-2.7.0\crowd.cfg.xml7724346764409221781tmp to c:\Program Files\atlassian\atlassian-crowd-2.7.0\crowd.cfg.xml
Something is running in the background. But, Apache is clearly not working.