[opencms-dev] Installation struggle

[Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 04:37:46PM -0400, Tim Howland wrote:
> Looks like your tomcat conf is munged- it's trying to install a .WAR
> from /var/lib/tomcat4/webapps, but it's looking in
> /usr/share/tomcat4/webapps for the uncompressed file contents.

Crazy thing! they are just symlinks (on Debian)

# ls -l /usr/share/tomcat4/webapps
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           24 Sep 19 03:17
/usr/share/tomcat4/webapps -> /var/lib/tomcat4/webapps

> 
> If this is a development box and doesn't have any critical apps on it,
> I'd consider upgrading to the latest supported version of the tomcat
> 5.0.x series.

Lets see what happen

Thanks a lot

>
> Tim
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja [mailto:ivangsa at yahoo.es] 
> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 4:07 PM
> To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
> Subject: [opencms-dev] Installation struggle
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> i researching for an open source Java based CMS
> in the aim to provide a tool to provide our business costumers
> with a easy to use tool fo updating the content of their websites
> 
> that's why i'm trying openCMS but with no luck so far!
> 
> i tryed to use version '6.0 alpha' but tomcat4 failed to deploy
> with the following:
> 
> 2004-10-25 19:54:15 StandardHost[localhost]: Installing web application
> at
> context path /opencms from URL
> jar:file:/var/lib/tomcat4/webapps/opencms.war!/
> 2004-10-25 19:54:15 HostConfig[localhost] Error deploying web
> application
> archive opencms.war
> java.io.FileNotFoundException:
> /usr/share/tomcat4/webapps/opencms/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF (No such file or
> directory)
> 
> i'm not sure if is because of a missconfiguration on my tomcat ...
> 
> any help?
> 
> i've already find this question on the list archives
> http://mail.opencms.org/pipermail/opencms-dev/2002q4/002547.html
> 
> but not the answer
> 
> The point is that if i unpack the war by hand the setup process does not
> work
> and with lots of problems on the MySQL authentication, that i'll be very
> pleased to feedback on another mail
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> Ivan
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Ivan Garcia<ivan at pionlabs.com>
> http://pionlabs.com/
> 
> 
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