Re: Deployment on tomcat

Hi all,

finally I was able to solve my problem. I removed the tomcat from the
distribution and installed a tomcat 7 manually. Then everything worked as
described in the manual.

Thanks to all for your help

Martin


On 22 April 2013 14:59, Glen Mazza <[email protected]> wrote:

> No, in the first sentence of my response below I indeed identified the
> class not found exception as the most obvious problem -- you didn't mention
> that when you posted the stack trace in your original posting, so I didn't
> know if you were aware of it (I don't know you, as far as I know you might
> be a total newbie.) That you would get such an egregious OOTB error for a
> vanilla install of Roller caused me to think you might have just dumped the
> WAR on Tomcat without configuring a database or the
> roller-custom.properties file and a random error was popping up as a
> result.  So maybe you were unaware of the installation guide, causing me to
> ask about that.  Further if you hadn't installed a database, I wanted to
> refer you to the simple Derby that you can use in your initial prototyping
> of Roller (I didn't want you to run away from testing Roller on account of
> needing to install a more complex DBMS, nor did I want you have have to
> work with the release version of the guide which doesn't cover Derby much
> leaving you with a lot of wasted time guessing configuration.)
>
> But Ubuntu 8.04 is five years old (reaching end of life in 2011:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**Releases <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases>),
> and I'm guessing, based on the location of Tomcat on your machine, that you
> installed Tomcat via sudo apt-get install tomcat6 and not via a manual
> install of Apache Tomcat from the Tomcat website.  I would consider
> updating Ubuntu and trying with a Tomcat 6 or 7 downloaded from the Apache
> Tomcat website to rule out the problem being with the potentially
> un-updated Tomcat packages Canonical provides for Ubuntu 8.
>
> Glen
>
>
> On 04/22/2013 02:05 AM, Martin Kaiser wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I don't expect any problem with the database. I just think that Glen wants
>> me to try his newly written guide ;)
>>
>> What I did so far is just a plain installation of tomcat on my ubuntu
>> machine (think its 8.04) then I did everything written in the installation
>> guide of roller upto the point where I got stuck. Maybe someone has a
>> similar installation, or something like that and had the same problem?
>> Maybe I put the properties file in the wrong directory?
>>
>> Any help appreciated...
>>
>> regards,
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> On 21 April 2013 18:41, Matthias Wimmer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>  Why do you expect a problem with the database.
>>> Java is indicating, that it does not find the custom logger Log4JLogger.
>>> I am just not sure if this class is expected to be there or if the user
>>> having this problem has configured himself to use this logger but has not
>>> configured it correctly.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Matthias
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Glen Mazza <[email protected]> schrieb:
>>>
>>>  Hi Martin, clearly the class below is missing from the WAR that you
>>>> deployed on Tomcat -- I wonder why. Have you followed the installation
>>>> guide: http://www.apache.org/dist/**roller/roller-5/v5.0.1/docs/<http://www.apache.org/dist/roller/roller-5/v5.0.1/docs/>
>>>> ?
>>>>
>>>> At any rate, I suspect your roller-custom.properties hasn't been
>>>> populated or deployed to the tomcat_home/lib folder.  Which database
>>>> are
>>>> you using to host the Roller data?  Derby is easy to set up -- the
>>>> latest guide in trunk (OpenOffice format:
>>>> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/**roller/trunk/weblogger-docs/**
>>>> installguide/<http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/roller/trunk/weblogger-docs/installguide/>
>>>> )
>>>>
>>>> has specific Derby information I just added a few days ago.
>>>>
>>>> HTH,
>>>> Glen
>>>>
>>>> On 04/21/2013 08:20 AM, Martin Kaiser wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Caused by: org.apache.commons.logging.**LogConfigurationException:
>>>>> User-specified log class
>>>>>
>>>> 'org.apache.commons.logging.**impl.Log4JLogger'
>>>>
>>>>> cannot be found or is not useable.
>>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>
>>
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