AW: [opencms-dev] ver. 5 - News module - Troubleshooting

[Paul D. Bain]

At 11:23 AM 1/25/2005, Daniel Beinlich wrote:

>Thank you for your help, but I have [had] no success [in] us[ing] this 
>module. I have removed the module and I have
>installed it again. I have done everything that you [suggested in your 
>prior email].

Dan,

         I do not know what is wrong. In this email, I shall make a few 
guesses. Please remember this -- I am merely guessing, and you should not 
rely too heavily on my guesses.

>These are the mistakes [sic; "errors"] in the log files:
>
>Opencms.log:
><opencms_critical> 
>[com.opencms.file.CmsResourceTypePlain.importResource/1] User mark.miller 
>not found

         Is that the only relevant line in the file OpenCMS.log? Are there 
other lines in that file? Please do not make me prod you for information. 
Please offer _all_ relevant information.

         This error message may mean that the news module depends on the 
existence of an OpenCMS (OC) user whose name is "mark miller." Perhaps you 
could try to create a new user (within OC) with that name, and you may need 
to give him _full_ administrative privileges. Furthermore, you may need to 
be logged in as that user when using the news module.

         Please search the OC email archives in order to determine whether 
anyone else has posted a message containing this phrase, "User mark miller".

         You might benefit by increasing the amount of information in the 
OC log file. You can do this by editing the main OC configuration file, 
which is named "opencms.properties." In that file, go to the section whose 
heading is "Logging parameters" (usually line 689 or thereabouts). Read 
that section and configure your logging so that you can get more 
information from OC. Of course, you will have to re-start your servlet 
container (e.g., Tomcat) after you edit this file.

>Mysql.err:
>Aborted connection 81 to db: 'opencms' user: 'root' host: `localhost' (Got 
>an error reading communication packets)

         I do not know what this means. Again, you could go to the MySQL 
site and search the email archives for the phrase that you find in the log 
in order to discern the meaning of the phrase.

         Remember that the file mysql.err is _different_ from the file 
mysql.log. In this case, we are probably more interested in the latter than 
the former.


>I can insert news entries and everything is wonderful, but when I try to 
>view the NewsOverview.html in the demo 
>(http://localhost:8080/opencms/opencms/system/modules/com.opencms.modules.homepage.news/demo/NewsOverview.html)
>I see this:
>]]> tablehead -1 ]]> Headline Description Author Date Link Channel ]]> 
>id]]>headline ]]>description ]]>author ]]>date ]]>link ]]>channel ]]>
>
>When I try to view a single news entry 
>(http://localhost:8080/opencms/opencms/system/modules/com.opencms.modules.homepage.news/demo/singleNews.html?id=1)
>I see this:
>Das gew?nschte Element existiert nicht! Id: ]]>id Headline: ]]>headline 
>Description: ]]>description Author: ]]>author Date: ]]>date Date Start: 
>]]>date_start Date End: ]]>date_end Link: ]]>link Linktext: ]]>linkText 
>Text: ]]>text Channel: ]]>channel A_info 1: ]]>a_info1 A_info 2: 
>]]>a_info2 A_info 3: ]]>a_info3 Abstract: ]]>long_abstract ]]>
>
>Where are my mistakes? Please help me again



         Dan, henceforth, you may need to rely on the email archives for 
help. Please learn how to search them. I am not sure that I can continue to 
help you.


>Sincerely,
>
>Dan
>
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>Von: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org 
>[mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] Im Auftrag von Paul D. Bain
>Gesendet: Dienstag, 25. Januar 2005 01:32
>An: The OpenCms mailing list
>Betreff: Re: [opencms-dev] help with News module - read docs & logfiles, 
>re-install
>
>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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