[opencms-dev] how to add a new project?

[Dagmar Auer]

Hi Michael,

I was quite happy to find your mail, when I was trying to create a mount point to
my current project ("D:\Sites\mySite\") and therefore followed your instructions.
Unfortunately it didn't work.
I'm working with v27 (5.5.). After creating a new project, new folder, publishing
it, ... , I used the same instructions as described in cmssetup.txt for mounting
the pics-Folder, for mounting my folder:

addMountPoint "/mySite/" "D:/Sites/mySite/" mySite Guest Guests plain "383"

but nothing happens.

readFile "/mySite/thisweek.html"  throws an Exception (CmsException: 2 Not found;
Detailed Error: [com.opencms.file.CmsAccessFileMySql] /mySite/thisweek.html)

What's wrong with my statements or my system (anything missed to install?)?

A different problem occurs, when I try to add something new to News:
"Ein Systemfehler ist aufgetreten. ... [CmsException]: 0 unknown exception
Detailed Error: readFile [com.opencms.file.CmsAccessFileMySql] /news/news.ini
Caught Exception: [CmsException]: 2 Not found
Detailed Error: readFile [com.opencms.file.CmsAccessFileMySql] /news/news.ini

Did I forget to set additional paths, system variables, ... not yet documented in
the file "How to install OpenCms"???

Is there any kind of documentation available about the architecture of the
opencms system and/or about the general idea/strategy behind the implementation?

Thanks for taking the time to read and answer :-) my questions
Dagmar


Michael Emmerich wrote:

> > i've got opencms 40a26 running on suse6.3.
> > i have tried to add a new project to opencms. the files for that project
> > reside in a folder on my local harddrive.
> > but the way i tried didn't work.
>
> You can only add files to a project which are either in the OpemCms
> database or mounted under a mount point.
>
> > can anybody give me a hint on how to a new project to opencms and how to add
> > a new mount point?
>
> To get the files form your local harddrive accessible from OpenCms the
> easies way is to mount the folder with those files into the system. To
> add a new mount point do the following:
>
> - Create a project in OpenCms which contains the root folder. This might
> take a while.
> - In the project, create a new folder which will be the mountpoint for
> your files on the hard drive
> - Publish the project, the folder is now available in the online
> project.
> - Start the CmsShell
> - Login as the Admin (login admin admin)
> - create the new mountpoint: createMountPoint "mountpoint in OpenCms"
> "path to your folder on local drive" "unique name for this mountpoint"
> Guest Guests plain "383"
> - restart the OpenCms and you can access the files at the mountpoint. To
> edit whem within OpenCms, you have to set up a new project containing
> the mountpoint folder. Make sure that OpenCms has access rights to write
> into the folder of your local disk.
>
> In the porject, you then can copy the files into the database or export
> them into a OpenCms export file which could be imported in OpenCms
> again.
>
> You might take a look at the init scripts to see the syntax for other
> CmsShell commands.
>
> > is there any user manual already available?
>
> No, I am afraid not.
>
> Hope I could help you.
>
> Michael
>
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