[opencms-dev] Question!!! Please REPLY!!!

[Jeff Pittman]

Hi Elyasin and All,

I just joined this list and only installed opencms yesterday, so am having
similar problems as Elyasin.  I am making headway by feeling around the
system by trial and error.

In case it is instructive to those wishing to know how people are getting
confused with the current state of the docs (and I understand how it takes a
while to update docs), here's a play-by-play of what has thrown me.

First, while installing, I stumbled over the user names for mysql and for
the opencms system -- it worked when I left it as root and root without
password for either.  I didn't realize that this is the default setting for
mysql, but I usually use postgres so needed to learn that.

When the system finished installing - btw, kudos to the programmers who
wrote the installation wizard and other code - I couldn't add folders, but
then I realized you have to be working on the offline version for that.

Then, like Elyasin, I couldn't figure out where to put the new folder for my
project -- finally just put it under root.

I realize the pdf docs haven't been updated yet for the newer structure and
features, which I've determined to some degree by rooting about in release
files and mail archives. I followed the instructions in the pdf file about
creating a "Hello World" page and substituted the directory structure of my
app folder in templates created from scratch by copying the text from the
pdf file and pasting it into the new files as I created them.  There is
apparently a new file type called XMLTemplate that you choose instead of
plain text when you create a template.

Then when I got to the stage of trying to make a new page from the templates
I created, the templates didn't show up in the drop-down list in the
new-page-creation dialog.  Since the "new release -welcome" template does
show up in the list I found where that is and saw that it is in
/modules/org.opencms.welcome.  Further, when you look at
/modules/org.opencms.default and /modules/org.opencms.welcome you see that
they have the same directory structure.  One of the directories is called
templates and that is where the two templates that do show up in the
pull-down are stored in each org.opencms.whatever folder.  So, I created a
folder called org.opencms.myproject and under that made a directory called
templates.  Then I moved my templates files into this templates folder. When
you create the templates you will have one content template, one frame
template, and one master template.  Turns out that only the master template
shows up in the pull-down list when you go to create a new page in your
project folder (because the master "includes" the content and frame types).

Also, I changed the group of the files to be that of my project, but I'm not
sure if it makes a difference.

After that, when I created a page in my project folder and picked my new
master template from the pull-down list, I got this error upon attempting to
view the page:

[frametemplate] ??? com.opencms.core.CmsException: 2 Not found. Detailed
error: [com.opencms.file.mySql.CmsDbAccess]
/default/vfs/org.opencms.myproject/templates/frametemplate1

And, from that determined that it is looking in /default/vfs for
org.opencms.myproject/templates/frametemplate1 directory. I looked at the
org.opencms.default folder and see that it contains folders called
contenttemplates and frametemplates.  So, I made folders with these names in
my org.opencms.myproject folders and put my content and frame templates in
their respective folders.

But that still doesn't work, as it is giving this error:

[frametemplate] ??? com.opencms.core.CmsException: 2 Not found. Detailed
error: [com.opencms.file.mySql.CmsDbAccess]
/default/vfs/org.opencms.myproject/frametemplates/frametemplate1

So somehow you have to get your templates into the vfs (virtual file
system).  How do you do that?

Thanks,

Jeff Pittman
Beaumont TX



----- Original Message -----
From: "Elyasin Shaladi" <Elyasin.Shaladi at web.de>
To: <opencms-dev at www.opencms.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 4:25 PM
Subject: [opencms-dev] Question!!! Please REPLY!!!


> Hi,
>
>  i ask this question for the third time. Please reply.
>
> In the doc they talk about the example directory which i should choose to
create a project at the practical part. But there is none. How can i fix
that problem?
>
> Thx
>
> Elyasin
>