[xwiki-users] New install problem: 404 from Tomcat

[Graeme West]

Hi all,
Just attempted to deploy the XWiki 1.4 .WAR distribution into Tomcat
5.5.20, using PostgreSQL, and I'm getting a 404 error when I try to
load the Xwiki main page.

I deployed the wiki by dropping the .war file into the webapps
directory, and Tomcat subsequently automatically unpacked the WAR into
an 'xwiki' directory.

But now when I go to my host : http://localhost:8080/xwiki/ , I get an
Apache Tomcat 404 error, saying "The requested resource (/xwiki/) is
not available.". It's not even an XWiki 404 - it's a default Tomcat
one, the same as I'd get if I loaded http://localhost:8080/ThisWebAppDoesNotExist
.

I'm sure I've installed the Xwiki war incorrectly, but can anyone
point me in the right direction - where have I gone wrong?

I'm deploying on CentOS 5 using the default Tomcat installation which
comes with that OS. The only thing I've changed is the Hibernate
configuration to reflect a Postgre database (which is set up).

Thanks in advance.

Graeme West

Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number SC021474

[Esbach, Brandon]

Graeme,

If you've just deployed it, you usually need to ensure you've setup the
hibernate to point to your database (it's fairly simple to do, just edit
the file and uncomment the relative area, adding in account details as
needed).
AFAIK tomcat won't start the app until it has a valid db connection,
which could explain why you're getting a tomcat error (and not an xwiki
error)

-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at xwiki.org [mailto:users-bounces at xwiki.org] On Behalf
Of Graeme West
Sent: 12 June 2008 13:02
To: XWiki Users
Subject: [xwiki-users] New install problem: 404 from Tomcat

Hi all,
Just attempted to deploy the XWiki 1.4 .WAR distribution into Tomcat
5.5.20, using PostgreSQL, and I'm getting a 404 error when I try to load
the Xwiki main page.

I deployed the wiki by dropping the .war file into the webapps
directory, and Tomcat subsequently automatically unpacked the WAR into
an 'xwiki' directory.

But now when I go to my host : http://localhost:8080/xwiki/ , I get an
Apache Tomcat 404 error, saying "The requested resource (/xwiki/) is not
available.". It's not even an XWiki 404 - it's a default Tomcat one, the
same as I'd get if I loaded http://localhost:8080/ThisWebAppDoesNotExist
.

I'm sure I've installed the Xwiki war incorrectly, but can anyone point
me in the right direction - where have I gone wrong?

I'm deploying on CentOS 5 using the default Tomcat installation which
comes with that OS. The only thing I've changed is the Hibernate
configuration to reflect a Postgre database (which is set up).

Thanks in advance.

Graeme West

Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number
SC021474 _______________________________________________
users mailing list
users at xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users

[Squirrel]

Have you done this (accordingly)?

cd /var/lib/tomcat5.5/webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/lib/

wget http://jdbc.postgresql.org/download/postgresql-8.3-603.jdbc4.jar
chown tomcat55:nogroup
/var/lib/tomcat5.5/webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/lib/postgresql-8.3-603.jdbc4.jar
/etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 restart

I'm fighting right now with Ubuntu 8.04 Server. I'm just getting a white
page and I know that other users did get that too, but because I used Debian
Etch before I always thought they are doing something wrong...now I believe
something in Ubuntu is broken...dammit...6 times a complete server
setup...the same steps one time in Debian and voila, it works....


On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Esbach, Brandon <

Graeme,
If you've just deployed it, you usually need to ensure you've setup the
hibernate to point to your database (it's fairly simple to do, just edit
the file and uncomment the relative area, adding in account details as
needed).
AFAIK tomcat won't start the app until it has a valid db connection,
which could explain why you're getting a tomcat error (and not an xwiki
error)
-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at xwiki.org [mailto:users-bounces at xwiki.org] On Behalf
Of Graeme West
Sent: 12 June 2008 13:02
To: XWiki Users
Subject: [xwiki-users] New install problem: 404 from Tomcat
Hi all,
Just attempted to deploy the XWiki 1.4 .WAR distribution into Tomcat
5.5.20, using PostgreSQL, and I'm getting a 404 error when I try to load
the Xwiki main page.
I deployed the wiki by dropping the .war file into the webapps
directory, and Tomcat subsequently automatically unpacked the WAR into
an 'xwiki' directory.
But now when I go to my host : http://localhost:8080/xwiki/ , I get an
Apache Tomcat 404 error, saying "The requested resource (/xwiki/) is not
available.". It's not even an XWiki 404 - it's a default Tomcat one, the
same as I'd get if I loaded http://localhost:8080/ThisWebAppDoesNotExist
.
I'm sure I've installed the Xwiki war incorrectly, but can anyone point
me in the right direction - where have I gone wrong?
I'm deploying on CentOS 5 using the default Tomcat installation which
comes with that OS. The only thing I've changed is the Hibernate
configuration to reflect a Postgre database (which is set up).
Thanks in advance.
Graeme West
Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number
SC021474 _______________________________________________
users mailing list
users at xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
_______________________________________________
users mailing list
users at xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users

[Jean-Vincent Drean]

Hi Graeme,

Do you see any error in the container log ?
Having the DB misconfigured lead to a XWiki exception, getting a 404
means that the container hasn't deployed the webapp.
Can it be a right issue ? Is the owner of the xwiki webapp files tomcat:tomcat ?

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Esbach, Brandon

Post by Esbach, Brandon
Graeme,
If you've just deployed it, you usually need to ensure you've setup the
hibernate to point to your database (it's fairly simple to do, just edit
the file and uncomment the relative area, adding in account details as
needed).
AFAIK tomcat won't start the app until it has a valid db connection,
which could explain why you're getting a tomcat error (and not an xwiki
error)
-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at xwiki.org [mailto:users-bounces at xwiki.org] On Behalf
Of Graeme West
Sent: 12 June 2008 13:02
To: XWiki Users
Subject: [xwiki-users] New install problem: 404 from Tomcat
Hi all,
Just attempted to deploy the XWiki 1.4 .WAR distribution into Tomcat
5.5.20, using PostgreSQL, and I'm getting a 404 error when I try to load
the Xwiki main page.
I deployed the wiki by dropping the .war file into the webapps
directory, and Tomcat subsequently automatically unpacked the WAR into
an 'xwiki' directory.
But now when I go to my host : http://localhost:8080/xwiki/ , I get an
Apache Tomcat 404 error, saying "The requested resource (/xwiki/) is not
available.". It's not even an XWiki 404 - it's a default Tomcat one, the
same as I'd get if I loaded http://localhost:8080/ThisWebAppDoesNotExist
.
I'm sure I've installed the Xwiki war incorrectly, but can anyone point
me in the right direction - where have I gone wrong?
I'm deploying on CentOS 5 using the default Tomcat installation which
comes with that OS. The only thing I've changed is the Hibernate
configuration to reflect a Postgre database (which is set up).
Thanks in advance.
Graeme West
Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number
SC021474 _______________________________________________
users mailing list
users at xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
_______________________________________________
users mailing list
users at xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users

[Squirrel]

The owner is varying from distribution to distribution...sometimes it's
tomcat55:nogroup (debian+ubuntu) or if you install tomcat from source,
whatever you have defined...

But Jean-Vincent is right, that could be an issue too.

Post by Jean-Vincent Drean
Hi Graeme,
Do you see any error in the container log ?
Having the DB misconfigured lead to a XWiki exception, getting a 404
means that the container hasn't deployed the webapp.
Can it be a right issue ? Is the owner of the xwiki webapp files tomcat:tomcat ?
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Esbach, Brandon

Post by Esbach, Brandon
Graeme,
If you've just deployed it, you usually need to ensure you've setup the
hibernate to point to your database (it's fairly simple to do, just edit
the file and uncomment the relative area, adding in account details as
needed).
AFAIK tomcat won't start the app until it has a valid db connection,
which could explain why you're getting a tomcat error (and not an xwiki
error)
-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at xwiki.org [mailto:users-bounces at xwiki.org] On Behalf
Of Graeme West
Sent: 12 June 2008 13:02
To: XWiki Users
Subject: [xwiki-users] New install problem: 404 from Tomcat
Hi all,
Just attempted to deploy the XWiki 1.4 .WAR distribution into Tomcat
5.5.20, using PostgreSQL, and I'm getting a 404 error when I try to load
the Xwiki main page.
I deployed the wiki by dropping the .war file into the webapps
directory, and Tomcat subsequently automatically unpacked the WAR into
an 'xwiki' directory.
But now when I go to my host : http://localhost:8080/xwiki/ , I get an
Apache Tomcat 404 error, saying "The requested resource (/xwiki/) is not
available.". It's not even an XWiki 404 - it's a default Tomcat one, the
same as I'd get if I loaded http://localhost:8080/ThisWebAppDoesNotExist
.
I'm sure I've installed the Xwiki war incorrectly, but can anyone point
me in the right direction - where have I gone wrong?
I'm deploying on CentOS 5 using the default Tomcat installation which
comes with that OS. The only thing I've changed is the Hibernate
configuration to reflect a Postgre database (which is set up).
Thanks in advance.
Graeme West
Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number
SC021474 _______________________________________________
users mailing list
users at xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
_______________________________________________
users mailing list
users at xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users

--
Jean-Vincent Drean
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[Graeme West]

Hi all,
Thanks for your ideas. I'm using 'postgresql-jdbc3.jar', which shipped
with CentOS 5, in the /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/lib
directory. It has the correct permissions and ownership (the same as
all the other tomcat libs).

I just tried switching to using MySQL with the MySQL/j connector
instead - this gave the same result. So I'm thinking it's a Tomcat
problem.

I've also tried deleting the Xwiki webapp folder, and letting Tomcat
re-unpack it. Same result.

I can't see anything unusual in the Tomcat logs at all, unfortunately.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help.

Graeme West

Post by Squirrel
The owner is varying from distribution to distribution...sometimes it's
tomcat55:nogroup (debian+ubuntu) or if you install tomcat from source,
whatever you have defined...
But Jean-Vincent is right, that could be an issue too.

Post by Jean-Vincent Drean
Hi Graeme,
Do you see any error in the container log ?
Having the DB misconfigured lead to a XWiki exception, getting a 404
means that the container hasn't deployed the webapp.
Can it be a right issue ? Is the owner of the xwiki webapp files tomcat:tomcat ?
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Esbach, Brandon

Post by Esbach, Brandon
Graeme,
If you've just deployed it, you usually need to ensure you've setup the
hibernate to point to your database (it's fairly simple to do, just edit
the file and uncomment the relative area, adding in account
details as
needed).
AFAIK tomcat won't start the app until it has a valid db connection,
which could explain why you're getting a tomcat error (and not an xwiki
error)
-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at xwiki.org [mailto:users-bounces at xwiki.org] On Behalf
Of Graeme West
Sent: 12 June 2008 13:02
To: XWiki Users
Subject: [xwiki-users] New install problem: 404 from Tomcat
Hi all,
Just attempted to deploy the XWiki 1.4 .WAR distribution into Tomcat
5.5.20, using PostgreSQL, and I'm getting a 404 error when I try to load
the Xwiki main page.
I deployed the wiki by dropping the .war file into the webapps
directory, and Tomcat subsequently automatically unpacked the WAR into
an 'xwiki' directory.
But now when I go to my host : http://localhost:8080/xwiki/ , I get an
Apache Tomcat 404 error, saying "The requested resource (/xwiki/) is not
available.". It's not even an XWiki 404 - it's a default Tomcat one, the
same as I'd get if I loaded http://localhost:8080/ThisWebAppDoesNotExist
.
I'm sure I've installed the Xwiki war incorrectly, but can anyone point
me in the right direction - where have I gone wrong?
I'm deploying on CentOS 5 using the default Tomcat installation which
comes with that OS. The only thing I've changed is the Hibernate
configuration to reflect a Postgre database (which is set up).
Thanks in advance.
Graeme West
Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number
SC021474 _______________________________________________
users mailing list
users at xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
_______________________________________________
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users at xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users

--
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[Squirrel]

I would try to remove tomcat and install it from source or try it (in a
virtualbox) with Debian Etch...

Sorry lacking in better ideas...


On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Graeme West <graeme.west at gcal.ac.uk>

Post by Graeme West
Hi all,
Thanks for your ideas. I'm using 'postgresql-jdbc3.jar', which shipped
with CentOS 5, in the /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/lib
directory. It has the correct permissions and ownership (the same as
all the other tomcat libs).
I just tried switching to using MySQL with the MySQL/j connector
instead - this gave the same result. So I'm thinking it's a Tomcat
problem.
I've also tried deleting the Xwiki webapp folder, and letting Tomcat
re-unpack it. Same result.
I can't see anything unusual in the Tomcat logs at all, unfortunately.
Any ideas?
Thanks for your help.
Graeme West

Post by Squirrel
The owner is varying from distribution to distribution...sometimes it's
tomcat55:nogroup (debian+ubuntu) or if you install tomcat from source,
whatever you have defined...
But Jean-Vincent is right, that could be an issue too.

Post by Jean-Vincent Drean
Hi Graeme,
Do you see any error in the container log ?
Having the DB misconfigured lead to a XWiki exception, getting a 404
means that the container hasn't deployed the webapp.
Can it be a right issue ? Is the owner of the xwiki webapp files tomcat:tomcat ?
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Esbach, Brandon

Post by Esbach, Brandon
Graeme,
If you've just deployed it, you usually need to ensure you've setup the
hibernate to point to your database (it's fairly simple to do, just edit
the file and uncomment the relative area, adding in account details as
needed).
AFAIK tomcat won't start the app until it has a valid db connection,
which could explain why you're getting a tomcat error (and not an xwiki
error)
-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at xwiki.org [mailto:users-bounces at xwiki.org] On Behalf
Of Graeme West
Sent: 12 June 2008 13:02
To: XWiki Users
Subject: [xwiki-users] New install problem: 404 from Tomcat
Hi all,
Just attempted to deploy the XWiki 1.4 .WAR distribution into Tomcat
5.5.20, using PostgreSQL, and I'm getting a 404 error when I try to load
the Xwiki main page.
I deployed the wiki by dropping the .war file into the webapps
directory, and Tomcat subsequently automatically unpacked the WAR into
an 'xwiki' directory.
But now when I go to my host : http://localhost:8080/xwiki/ , I get an
Apache Tomcat 404 error, saying "The requested resource (/xwiki/) is not
available.". It's not even an XWiki 404 - it's a default Tomcat one, the
same as I'd get if I loaded

http://localhost:8080/ThisWebAppDoesNotExist

Post by Squirrel

Post by Jean-Vincent Drean

Post by Esbach, Brandon
.
I'm sure I've installed the Xwiki war incorrectly, but can anyone point
me in the right direction - where have I gone wrong?
I'm deploying on CentOS 5 using the default Tomcat installation which
comes with that OS. The only thing I've changed is the Hibernate
configuration to reflect a Postgre database (which is set up).
Thanks in advance.
Graeme West
Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number
SC021474 _______________________________________________
users mailing list
users at xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
_______________________________________________
users mailing list
users at xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users

--
Jean-Vincent Drean
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users at xwiki.org
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[Squirrel]

Just to let you know:

I just tried it with CentOS 5 too, without any success.
I tried it again with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server, no success (I spent over 12
hours, installing the whole server more than 5 times from scratch, searching
for infos, etc.)
Switched back, again, to Debian Etch, 30 min. later everything is up and
running.

Boy, freaking distro bunglers...

Post by Squirrel
I would try to remove tomcat and install it from source or try it (in a
virtualbox) with Debian Etch...
Sorry lacking in better ideas...
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Graeme West <graeme.west at gcal.ac.uk>

Post by Graeme West
Hi all,
Thanks for your ideas. I'm using 'postgresql-jdbc3.jar', which shipped
with CentOS 5, in the /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/lib
directory. It has the correct permissions and ownership (the same as
all the other tomcat libs).
I just tried switching to using MySQL with the MySQL/j connector
instead - this gave the same result. So I'm thinking it's a Tomcat
problem.
I've also tried deleting the Xwiki webapp folder, and letting Tomcat
re-unpack it. Same result.
I can't see anything unusual in the Tomcat logs at all, unfortunately.
Any ideas?
Thanks for your help.
Graeme West

Post by Squirrel
The owner is varying from distribution to distribution...sometimes it's
tomcat55:nogroup (debian+ubuntu) or if you install tomcat from source,
whatever you have defined...
But Jean-Vincent is right, that could be an issue too.

Post by Jean-Vincent Drean
Hi Graeme,
Do you see any error in the container log ?
Having the DB misconfigured lead to a XWiki exception, getting a 404
means that the container hasn't deployed the webapp.
Can it be a right issue ? Is the owner of the xwiki webapp files tomcat:tomcat ?
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Esbach, Brandon

Post by Esbach, Brandon
Graeme,
If you've just deployed it, you usually need to ensure you've setup the
hibernate to point to your database (it's fairly simple to do, just edit
the file and uncomment the relative area, adding in account details as
needed).
AFAIK tomcat won't start the app until it has a valid db connection,
which could explain why you're getting a tomcat error (and not an xwiki
error)
-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at xwiki.org [mailto:users-bounces at xwiki.org] On Behalf
Of Graeme West
Sent: 12 June 2008 13:02
To: XWiki Users
Subject: [xwiki-users] New install problem: 404 from Tomcat
Hi all,
Just attempted to deploy the XWiki 1.4 .WAR distribution into Tomcat
5.5.20, using PostgreSQL, and I'm getting a 404 error when I try to load
the Xwiki main page.
I deployed the wiki by dropping the .war file into the webapps
directory, and Tomcat subsequently automatically unpacked the WAR into
an 'xwiki' directory.
But now when I go to my host : http://localhost:8080/xwiki/ , I get an
Apache Tomcat 404 error, saying "The requested resource (/xwiki/) is not
available.". It's not even an XWiki 404 - it's a default Tomcat one, the
same as I'd get if I loaded

http://localhost:8080/ThisWebAppDoesNotExist

Post by Squirrel

Post by Jean-Vincent Drean

Post by Esbach, Brandon
.
I'm sure I've installed the Xwiki war incorrectly, but can anyone point
me in the right direction - where have I gone wrong?
I'm deploying on CentOS 5 using the default Tomcat installation which
comes with that OS. The only thing I've changed is the Hibernate
configuration to reflect a Postgre database (which is set up).
Thanks in advance.
Graeme West
Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number
SC021474 _______________________________________________
users mailing list
users at xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
_______________________________________________
users mailing list
users at xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users

--
Jean-Vincent Drean
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[Graeme West]

Hi Squirrel,
Thanks for the info. I might give the standalone distribution one more
go and then I'll give up...

Thanks for your help everyone.

Graeme

Post by Squirrel
I just tried it with CentOS 5 too, without any success.
I tried it again with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server, no success (I spent over 12
hours, installing the whole server more than 5 times from scratch, searching
for infos, etc.)
Switched back, again, to Debian Etch, 30 min. later everything is up and
running.
Boy, freaking distro bunglers...
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Squirrel

Post by Squirrel
I would try to remove tomcat and install it from source or try it (in a
virtualbox) with Debian Etch...
Sorry lacking in better ideas...
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Graeme West
<graeme.west at gcal.ac.uk>

Post by Graeme West
Hi all,
Thanks for your ideas. I'm using 'postgresql-jdbc3.jar', which shipped
with CentOS 5, in the /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/lib
directory. It has the correct permissions and ownership (the same as
all the other tomcat libs).
I just tried switching to using MySQL with the MySQL/j connector
instead - this gave the same result. So I'm thinking it's a Tomcat
problem.
I've also tried deleting the Xwiki webapp folder, and letting Tomcat
re-unpack it. Same result.
I can't see anything unusual in the Tomcat logs at all,
unfortunately.
Any ideas?
Thanks for your help.
Graeme West

Post by Squirrel
The owner is varying from distribution to distribution...sometimes it's
tomcat55:nogroup (debian+ubuntu) or if you install tomcat from source,
whatever you have defined...
But Jean-Vincent is right, that could be an issue too.

Post by Jean-Vincent Drean
Hi Graeme,
Do you see any error in the container log ?
Having the DB misconfigured lead to a XWiki exception, getting a 404
means that the container hasn't deployed the webapp.
Can it be a right issue ? Is the owner of the xwiki webapp files tomcat:tomcat ?
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Esbach, Brandon

Post by Esbach, Brandon
Graeme,
If you've just deployed it, you usually need to ensure you've setup the
hibernate to point to your database (it's fairly simple to do, just edit
the file and uncomment the relative area, adding in account details as
needed).
AFAIK tomcat won't start the app until it has a valid db
connection,
which could explain why you're getting a tomcat error (and not an xwiki
error)
-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at xwiki.org [mailto:users-bounces at xwiki.org] On Behalf
Of Graeme West
Sent: 12 June 2008 13:02
To: XWiki Users
Subject: [xwiki-users] New install problem: 404 from Tomcat
Hi all,
Just attempted to deploy the XWiki 1.4 .WAR distribution into Tomcat
5.5.20, using PostgreSQL, and I'm getting a 404 error when I try to load
the Xwiki main page.
I deployed the wiki by dropping the .war file into the webapps
directory, and Tomcat subsequently automatically unpacked the WAR into
an 'xwiki' directory.
But now when I go to my host : http://localhost:8080/xwiki/ , I get an
Apache Tomcat 404 error, saying "The requested resource (/xwiki/) is not
available.". It's not even an XWiki 404 - it's a default Tomcat one, the
same as I'd get if I loaded

http://localhost:8080/ThisWebAppDoesNotExist

Post by Squirrel

Post by Jean-Vincent Drean

Post by Esbach, Brandon
.
I'm sure I've installed the Xwiki war incorrectly, but can anyone point
me in the right direction - where have I gone wrong?
I'm deploying on CentOS 5 using the default Tomcat installation which
comes with that OS. The only thing I've changed is the Hibernate
configuration to reflect a Postgre database (which is set up).
Thanks in advance.
Graeme West
Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number
SC021474 _______________________________________________
users mailing list
users at xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
_______________________________________________
users mailing list
users at xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users

--
Jean-Vincent Drean
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users at xwiki.org
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[Squirrel]

This might help you:
http://www.howtoforge.de/howto/xwiki-on-debian-4-etch-tomcat-mysql/

Post by Graeme West
Hi Squirrel,
Thanks for the info. I might give the standalone distribution one more
go and then I'll give up...
Thanks for your help everyone.
Graeme

Post by Squirrel
I just tried it with CentOS 5 too, without any success.
I tried it again with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server, no success (I spent over 12
hours, installing the whole server more than 5 times from scratch, searching
for infos, etc.)
Switched back, again, to Debian Etch, 30 min. later everything is up and
running.
Boy, freaking distro bunglers...
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Squirrel

Post by Squirrel
I would try to remove tomcat and install it from source or try it (in a
virtualbox) with Debian Etch...
Sorry lacking in better ideas...
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Graeme West
<graeme.west at gcal.ac.uk>

Post by Graeme West
Hi all,
Thanks for your ideas. I'm using 'postgresql-jdbc3.jar', which shipped
with CentOS 5, in the /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/lib
directory. It has the correct permissions and ownership (the same as
all the other tomcat libs).
I just tried switching to using MySQL with the MySQL/j connector
instead - this gave the same result. So I'm thinking it's a Tomcat
problem.
I've also tried deleting the Xwiki webapp folder, and letting Tomcat
re-unpack it. Same result.
I can't see anything unusual in the Tomcat logs at all,
unfortunately.
Any ideas?
Thanks for your help.
Graeme West

Post by Squirrel
The owner is varying from distribution to distribution...sometimes it's
tomcat55:nogroup (debian+ubuntu) or if you install tomcat from source,
whatever you have defined...
But Jean-Vincent is right, that could be an issue too.

Post by Jean-Vincent Drean
Hi Graeme,
Do you see any error in the container log ?
Having the DB misconfigured lead to a XWiki exception, getting a 404
means that the container hasn't deployed the webapp.
Can it be a right issue ? Is the owner of the xwiki webapp files
tomcat:tomcat ?
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Esbach, Brandon

Post by Esbach, Brandon
Graeme,
If you've just deployed it, you usually need to ensure you've setup the
hibernate to point to your database (it's fairly simple to do, just edit
the file and uncomment the relative area, adding in account details as
needed).
AFAIK tomcat won't start the app until it has a valid db connection,
which could explain why you're getting a tomcat error (and not an xwiki
error)
-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at xwiki.org [mailto:users-bounces at xwiki.org] On
Behalf
Of Graeme West
Sent: 12 June 2008 13:02
To: XWiki Users
Subject: [xwiki-users] New install problem: 404 from Tomcat
Hi all,
Just attempted to deploy the XWiki 1.4 .WAR distribution into Tomcat
5.5.20, using PostgreSQL, and I'm getting a 404 error when I try to load
the Xwiki main page.
I deployed the wiki by dropping the .war file into the webapps
directory, and Tomcat subsequently automatically unpacked the WAR into
an 'xwiki' directory.
But now when I go to my host : http://localhost:8080/xwiki/ , I get an
Apache Tomcat 404 error, saying "The requested resource (/xwiki/) is not
available.". It's not even an XWiki 404 - it's a default Tomcat one, the
same as I'd get if I loaded

http://localhost:8080/ThisWebAppDoesNotExist

Post by Squirrel

Post by Jean-Vincent Drean

Post by Esbach, Brandon
.
I'm sure I've installed the Xwiki war incorrectly, but can anyone point
me in the right direction - where have I gone wrong?
I'm deploying on CentOS 5 using the default Tomcat installation which
comes with that OS. The only thing I've changed is the Hibernate
configuration to reflect a Postgre database (which is set up).
Thanks in advance.
Graeme West
Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number
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[Squirrel]

I'm sorry, that was my german howto, here the english one:
http://www.howtoforge.com/xwiki-tomcat-mysql-debian-etch

Post by Squirrel
http://www.howtoforge.de/howto/xwiki-on-debian-4-etch-tomcat-mysql/

Post by Graeme West
Hi Squirrel,
Thanks for the info. I might give the standalone distribution one more
go and then I'll give up...
Thanks for your help everyone.
Graeme

Post by Squirrel
I just tried it with CentOS 5 too, without any success.
I tried it again with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server, no success (I spent over 12
hours, installing the whole server more than 5 times from scratch, searching
for infos, etc.)
Switched back, again, to Debian Etch, 30 min. later everything is up and
running.
Boy, freaking distro bunglers...
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Squirrel

Post by Squirrel
I would try to remove tomcat and install it from source or try it (in a
virtualbox) with Debian Etch...
Sorry lacking in better ideas...
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Graeme West
<graeme.west at gcal.ac.uk>

Post by Graeme West
Hi all,
Thanks for your ideas. I'm using 'postgresql-jdbc3.jar', which shipped
with CentOS 5, in the /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/lib
directory. It has the correct permissions and ownership (the same as
all the other tomcat libs).
I just tried switching to using MySQL with the MySQL/j connector
instead - this gave the same result. So I'm thinking it's a Tomcat
problem.
I've also tried deleting the Xwiki webapp folder, and letting Tomcat
re-unpack it. Same result.
I can't see anything unusual in the Tomcat logs at all,
unfortunately.
Any ideas?
Thanks for your help.
Graeme West

Post by Squirrel
The owner is varying from distribution to distribution...sometimes it's
tomcat55:nogroup (debian+ubuntu) or if you install tomcat from source,
whatever you have defined...
But Jean-Vincent is right, that could be an issue too.

Post by Jean-Vincent Drean
Hi Graeme,
Do you see any error in the container log ?
Having the DB misconfigured lead to a XWiki exception, getting a 404
means that the container hasn't deployed the webapp.
Can it be a right issue ? Is the owner of the xwiki webapp files
tomcat:tomcat ?
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Esbach, Brandon

Post by Esbach, Brandon
Graeme,
If you've just deployed it, you usually need to ensure you've setup the
hibernate to point to your database (it's fairly simple to do, just edit
the file and uncomment the relative area, adding in account details as
needed).
AFAIK tomcat won't start the app until it has a valid db connection,
which could explain why you're getting a tomcat error (and not an xwiki
error)
-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at xwiki.org [mailto:users-bounces at xwiki.org] On
Behalf
Of Graeme West
Sent: 12 June 2008 13:02
To: XWiki Users
Subject: [xwiki-users] New install problem: 404 from Tomcat
Hi all,
Just attempted to deploy the XWiki 1.4 .WAR distribution into Tomcat
5.5.20, using PostgreSQL, and I'm getting a 404 error when I try to load
the Xwiki main page.
I deployed the wiki by dropping the .war file into the webapps
directory, and Tomcat subsequently automatically unpacked the WAR into
an 'xwiki' directory.
But now when I go to my host : http://localhost:8080/xwiki/ , I get an
Apache Tomcat 404 error, saying "The requested resource (/xwiki/) is not
available.". It's not even an XWiki 404 - it's a default Tomcat one, the
same as I'd get if I loaded

http://localhost:8080/ThisWebAppDoesNotExist

Post by Squirrel

Post by Jean-Vincent Drean

Post by Esbach, Brandon
.
I'm sure I've installed the Xwiki war incorrectly, but can anyone point
me in the right direction - where have I gone wrong?
I'm deploying on CentOS 5 using the default Tomcat installation which
comes with that OS. The only thing I've changed is the Hibernate
configuration to reflect a Postgre database (which is set up).
Thanks in advance.
Graeme West
Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number
SC021474 _______________________________________________
users mailing list
users at xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
_______________________________________________
users mailing list
users at xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users

--
Jean-Vincent Drean
_______________________________________________
users mailing list
users at xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users

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