The doc could well be a bit wrong in step 2 - please file a bug for that :)
I do use it successfully with the following script to start it though: #!/bin/sh version=1.0.1 PLEXUS_BASE=$HOME/Library/Application\ Support/Archiva /Applications/Archiva/apache-archiva-$version/bin/macosx-universal-32/run.sh $@ No modifications to the installation are needed. Maybe you were missing an export of PLEXUS_BASE before starting? (the above doesn't need it since it's all on one line, the env vars are passed to the second run script). Cheers, Brett On 18/02/2008, Martin Hoeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to install archiva 1.0.1 on Linux as a standalone application > as running in JBoss gives various errors. > > The archiva admin guide for standalone installation [0] says > > | However, the best way to use this installation technique is to separate > | the configuration from the installation to make it easy to upgrade to > | newer versions in the future. > > I tried to follow these steps exactly as explained. However, it seems this > does not work at all. > > First, there is no 'data'-directory as mentioned in step 2 (I ignored > this for now). > > Second, as archiva should now hold it's data in the PLEXUS_BASE > directory, I thought it shouldn't need to write to the installation > directory (PLEXUS_HOME) which seems not to be true. If write access to > the PLEXUS_HOME directory is denied archiva startup fails. So I granted > write permissions to this directory. > > Third, the user- and artifact- database seem to be created in the > installation base (PLEXUS_HOME) and not PLEXUS_BASE, as PLEXUS_HOME now > contains new directories data/archiva and data/users with lots of files > in it. > > Has anybody successfully tried to perform a separation of installation > and data in archiva 1.0.1? > > Any comments are welcome. > > tia, > - martin > > [0] http://maven.apache.org/archiva/docs/1.0.1/adminguide/standalone.html > -- > Martin Höller | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *x Software + Systeme | http://www.xss.co.at/ > Karmarschgasse 51/2/20 | Tel: +43-1-6060114-30 > A-1100 Vienna, Austria | Fax: +43-1-6060114-71 > > -- Brett Porter Blog: http://blogs.exist.com/bporter/