[opencms-dev] help with News module - read docs & log files, re-install

[Paul D. Bain]

At 10:12 AM 1/24/2005, Daniel Beinlich wrote:


>The news module [that] I [am] us[ing] is written by Mark Miller

         Actually, Antonio Reyes and Paolo Brunasti also contributed to 
that module. See the file "manifest.xml" that is included in the module 
"zip" file.


>(<http://www.hema.ch/personal/mark.miller/opencms/module_news.html>http://www.hema.ch/personal/mark.miller/opencms/module_news.html). 
>[T]he version [of the module is version] 2. I couldn’t find
>
>another news module. I have read a lot of the page 
><http://opencms.al-arenal.de/>http://opencms.al-arenal.de/ but this page 
>is down. So
>
>I couldn’t get any other versions or documentations of the news module.
>
>I have successfully installed this module and I can insert a news entry 
>and edit an existing entry, but I don´t know how [to] implement the news 
>in my website. The demo inside the module doesn´t work.
>
>So, I really need your help and I hope that there is someone who can tell 
>me what I have to do.

         First, have you executed the file "news.sql" that is included in 
the "zip" file? I suspect that you have done so. Otherwise, you probably 
would not be able to insert a news entry. It is possible that OpenCMS has 
already executed the file for you (when you installed the module). Second, 
read the primary documentation file in the zip file. This file is named 
"index.html" and, in the zip file, it is located here:

         /system/modules/com.opencms.modules.homepage.news/doc

In the zip file, there are _several_ files named "index.html." If you have 
installed the news module, then this file is probably already in the OC 
virtual file system. Third, examine your log files, especially the first of 
these:

1.  opencms.log

         By default, this file is 
here:  <Tomcat_home>/webapps/opencms/WEB-INF/logs/opencms.log

2.  catalina.out -- For historical reasons, the primary log file for Tomcat 
is _not_ called "tomcat.log".

         On Debian, this file is here:  /var/log/tomcat4/catalina.out

3.  database log files, e.g., for MySQL.

         On Debian, this file is here:  /var/lib/mysql/<hostname>.log

Finally, on one occasion, I solved a problem with a module by removing it 
and then installing it again.

Sincerely,
Paul Bain
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