[opencms-dev] installation problem --

[Paul D. Bain]

Joel Thompson wrote:
> My platform:
> 
> # uname -a
> Linux tr-50 2.4.21-4.EL #1 Fri Oct 3 18:13:58 EDT 2003 i686 athlon i386 
> GNU/Linux
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon)
> 
> tried Tomcat-4.1.31 (webapps dir)
> and tried jboss-4.0.1 (server/all and server/default)

	Your environment is similar to that used by another user, Ethan 
Baldridge, who had problems installing OpenCms. Read the thread of 
discussion that he started last week. The primary difference between his 
environment and yours is that he was using Fedora Core 2, not RHEL 
release 3. Apparently, Red Hat (RH) has an usual way of building the 
binary RPM for Tomcat ver. 5. Furthermore, RH's binary RPM for Java (at 
least its JRE portion of that package) is not necessarily compatible 
with RH's binary RPM for Tomcat ver. 5. Ethan's solution was to install 
Tomcat manually after removing the Tomcat binary RPM.

> I've turned on all [of] the debugging [options so as] to get 
> [an] incling [sic; "inkling"] 
> .  .  .  [of] the [nature of the]
> problem (as set in opencms.properties).

	Is English your native language? If so, then you need to improve your 
written communication skills.

> In either case, (tomcat  directly, or jboss) I get the same problems... 
> the workspace doesn't get created properly upon running:

	IIRC, this particular problem (the workspace is not created upon 
installation) has been addressed at least once on this mailing list, and 
perhaps even several times, rather than just once. Please search the 
mailing list archives.

> http://localhost:8090/opencms/ocsetup
> it complains about files not found in the VFS directories...
> typical:
> 
> 10221:    com.opencms.core.CmsException: 2 Not found. Detailed error: 
> [com.opencms.file.mySql.CmsDbAccess] /default/vfs/index.html.
> 10220:     ( 1 / 1 )    !!! Exception com.opencms.core.CmsException: 


> I have confirmed that the tables are installed into MYSQL correctly

	OK, that is good.

> (by 
> the way version mysql  Ver 14.7 Distrib 4.1.9, for pc-linux-gnu (i686)) 
> with java connector: mysql-connector-java-3.1.8-bin.jar.
> 
> After the workplace seems to load up OK yet with some "Missing files" 
> errors. when I go to startup the opencms with: 
> http://localhost:8090/opencms/opencms  I get a 404, with description: 
> "The requested resource () is not available."  - I check all the logs 
> for opencms.log and for tomcat, and there is NO CLUE as to what is wrong.

Sincerely,
Paul Bain