[opencms-dev] Democontents not displayed any more

[Jan Michael Greiner]

Hello everybody,


finally I "solved" the problem by exporting my new site as a module, backing up the module, reinstalling OpenCms 10.5.1 from scratch, and importing the module.

The first try didn't work out, because I had selected the "Demo Site" before importing the module.
After searching for a long time, I found my site under /sites/default/sites/<my site>/...

So, I suggest, the module importer should issue a warning, if one is importing in another Site/Project than "System folder /".

What I also observed:
In the search management the "Rebuild this search index." creates a different log, if Site/Project "Demo Site" is selected, or if Site/Project "System folder /" is selected.
Would it need a warning too, if the search index is rebuilt, without being in "System folder /"?




Other feedback I can give:

1.) Installation runs fine with Tomcat 9.0.0.M15

2.) I use PostgreSQL. I always create the database for opencms by hand, I don't see the need, that opencms needs to access the database Setup wizzard with create database privileges.
There I have to trick the setup wizzard:

  a) Put jdbc:postgresql://192.168.0.153:5432/?sslmode=require as path to the database server, because the database server only accepts SSL connections. This creates jdbc:postgresql://192.168.0.153:5432/?sslmode=require/opencms in opencms.properties. That works, but jdbc:postgresql://192.168.0.153:5432/opencms?sslmode=require looks nicer :-)


  b) Tick "create user" and "create database" -> error, but tables are created anyway -> go back -> Database name and ssl stuff need to be filled in the form again -> untick "create user" and "create database" -> continue.


3.) I propose not to initialize user logins with default passwords, but to find another solution. For example create secure random passwords by the setup wizzard and output the passwords in the server log. And keep up to date documentation, on how a server administrator can reset a lost "Admin" password. I don't see this documented in 
http://documentation.opencms.org/opencms-documentation/
Does http://www.opencms-wiki.org/wiki/FAQ#I_lost_the_password_of_the_user_.22Admin.22.2C_what_can_I_do.3F
still work?



Best regards

Jan Michael Greiner





----- Original Message -----
From: Jan Michael Greiner <jan0michael at yahoo.com>
To: The OpenCms Mailing List <opencms-dev at opencms.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2017 8:04 AM
Subject: Democontents not displayed any more

Hello everybody,


I am quite new to OpenCms.
I created a new site, and was proud, that all the things are working (Online content available under http://<extradomain>/opencms/, template works, menu works, inline editing works... yeah :-) ).

But suddenly I get aware, that under https://<admindomain>/opencms/opencms/overview/ there is just an empty page, same for all demo pages delivered with the installation.
If I open overview/index.html in the explorer, I just see


Empty Container
DEVELOPER

Please drop a Layout Row in this container.
For: Area



If I open overview/index.html in the form editor, everything seems to be there...




If I set

log4j.logger.com.opencms=DEBUG
log4j.logger.org.opencms=DEBUG
and restart tomcat, there is no error in the log, that gives a hint, why the pages are empty.


I haved passed some hours, trying to find out, what is going on, but have no idea.
I cleared the caches, I "touched" /sites/default, I tried to reinitialize the workplace (restarted Tomcat, after the process didn't finish after 15 minutes).

Any ideas?


Best regards

Jan Michael Greiner