[opencms-dev] Re: Setup Wizard error - ver. 6 b1 - How to increase logging

[Paul D. Bain]

Brice Ruth wrote:
> Follow-up note. I have now tried OpenCms 6b1 on RedHat EL 3.0, w/
> Tomcat 5.0.30, IBM JDK 1.4.2 and I experienced the same problem as on
> XP - the installation completes successfully, but the welcome page is
> simply blank.
> 
> Brice
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Brice Ruth <bdruth at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:26:23 -0600
> Subject: Setup Wizard error
> To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
> 
> 
> Good morning,
> 
> I'm trying to get OpenCms up and running on WinXP, JDK 1.4.2, Tomcat
> 5.0.28. I have tried numerous things and yet after agreeing to the
> license, I always get the following error:
> 
> The OpenCms setup wizard has not been started correctly!
> Please click here to restart the wizard.
> 
> After experiencing this for a while, I tried getting OpenCms up and
> running on my OS X 10.3.8 system. The installer proceeded through the
> setup steps ... however, when all was done, loading the index.jsp at
> http://localhost:8080/opencms/opencms/index.jsp results in only a
> blank page.

Brice,

	Make certain that your browser is able to pop-up a new window. You must 
enable the browser to pop-up a window, and pop-up blockers must be 
turned off. You must also enable Javascript and do one or two other 
things with respect to the browser. Right now, I cannot remember what 
the other things are.

> No errors on the console, that I can see. What can I do to
> increase the logging?

	Your later email (the one that you sent shortly after this one) states 
that you are using OC ver. 6, beta 1. Is that correct? I have not yet 
succeeded in installing that version, but, IIRC from others' comments, 
that version allows you to increase the level of logging by changing 
settings in the main OC configuration file, "opencms.properties".

> A related question ... when going through the setup wizard and
> selecting an SQL-92 compatible database (I haven't tried this yet) -
> the only option provided for db/table creation is to create both the
> database and the [database] creation [sic; "connection", not "creation"]. 
 > Yet, with many database systems, the
> database instance needs to be created beforehand (MaxDB by MySQL, for
> instance). Will the setup wizard handle this gracefully?

	The DB server needs to be running at the time you begin the 
installation. In version 5 of OC, the setup wizard installs a JDBC 
driver (one that is appropriate for your DB server, e.g., MySQL) and 
causes it to make a connection to the DB server.

	I HTH.

Sincerely,
Paul Bain

> Thanks, I appreciate any feedback!
> 
> Best,
> Brice Ruth