[opencms-dev] problem installing opencms.war as ROOT.war (debian tomcat 5.5)

[Christoph P. Kukulies]

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 02:42:39PM +0200, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
> > 
> > Ah, and you can take a look here as well:
> > http://opencms-wiki.org/Installing_on_Debian_Etch
> 
> Thanks again. I had some pause on this machine but yesterday I continued
> installing OpenCms 7.0.5. I still had to overcome some quirks.
> 
> /usr/share/tomcat5.5-webapps has to be made owned by tomcat55 (the user
> under which tomcat runs on debian).
> 
> Also I'm missing the automatism that tomcat deploys a ROOT.war or
> opencms.war automatically when you put it into the webapps directory.
> Wonder if it is a tomcat configuration switch which is disabled under
> tomcat5.5 for debian.
> 
> Anyway, I unjared ROOT.war (alias opencms.war - I need it as the ROOT
> app) and started the setup.
> 
> The setup produced about 11000 lines and then the stop watch timer ran
> and ran and never ended. It ran for probably half or three quartes of an
> hour in step8 (unpacking modules or installing mnodules or what that was
> called).
> 
> I'm now wondering (did not check yet) if the installation went through
> anyway or can be briought to an end manually or if I will have to start
> over again.

Hi,

I managed to install by starting over again, now selecting all modules
(also the Alkacon modules) and the installation ran through and 7.0.5
finally got installed (as a ROOT application) now.

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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies (at) rwth-aachen.de