[opencms-dev] installation problem -- Tomcat on Red Hat or Fedora

[Paul D. Bain]

Paul D. Bain wrote:
>  
> 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 erred. In the paragraph above, please substitute the term "Tomcat 
ver. 4.1" for the term "Tomcat ver. 5."

>> 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
> 
> 
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