Re: Problem with Hotwax Demo

[David E Jones]

At the minute ALL ASF web sites run on static HTML. In some cases that  
HTML is exported from something like confluence, but none of them  
dynamically generate right now (AFAIK). I'm not sure, but I think this  
is actually an infra policy as there are not sufficient server  
resources for running all the sites in a dynamic way, and for the most  
part there is no reason for it since the sites are just static content  
anyway.

I don't know how much traffic ofbiz.apache.org gets, but I know many  
of the other projects get a LOT of traffic and the servers available  
for the web sites could not handle that traffic with dynamic content  
rendering going on.

Stepping back a little... we don't even know if we'll be able to host  
an OFBiz demo in a reasonable way (we should be able to, but I don't  
know), so we're getting a bit ahead of ourselves thinking about the  
web site.

BTW, I saw your commit Hans to put the site in the cmssite example.  
That's an interesting thing to do, and might be a good example with  
simplified content, but I'm worried about redundancy and inconsistency  
with the content there (ie I don't think there's a very good chance it  
will be maintained as the site is changed).

-David


On Jan 22, 2009, at 9:17 PM, Tim Ruppert wrote:

We sure can, but since they host that and don't do it under OFBiz,  
that would make it tough :)  If this is a request to get a site  
setup for OFBiz run by OFBiz, I'm all in to host this on this server  
and get it going as well.  I doubt we'll want to make this change at  
this point, but let me know your thoughts.

Hans, email me privately and I'll get you going on the server with  
access as well.

Cheers,
Tim
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----- "Hans Bakker" <mailingl...@antwebsystems.com> wrote:

Yes, i can give a hand here, however we should be able to run the
website under ofbiz too.....

Regards,
Hans

On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 14:51 -0700, David E Jones wrote:
Are there any volunteers on the PMC who would be willing to work
with
the ASF infra on getting a demo server setup on an actual ASF
server?
As great as it is to have this demo server contributed by Hotwax
(and
yes, I am a part of Hotwax), the people that do infra stuff at
Hotwax
don't always follow these mailing lists so reporting problems here

does no good. At least with ASF infra people would have someone the

infra Jira and such to use when issues arise. I could try to ping
those people every time I see something on the lists, but that means
a
single point of failure (me), which is a bad thing, and I end up
being
a nag and having to get involved and investigate every time
something
goes wrong, which I'm not really all that available for (I won't go

into details, but just believe me when I say that I don't have much

influence on those things).

On the other hand, maybe hosting a demo server like this would be
too
much of a pain for the current ASF infra volunteers (who tend to get

stretched rather thin sometimes). So, I don't know what the best
solution is...

This is one of various things that are not on ASF infra, and that we

need volunteers to help with migrating. To make things more
difficult,
in order to even help you must be pretty involved with the project,

most things requiring PMC membership to get going. These have been
on
my list for a while (see the last OFBiz board report for details),
but
that list is pretty big and priorities difficult for me to decide
on...

Help! I'm drowning! ;)

-David


On Jan 22, 2009, at 2:36 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:

I get the same error on the demo site, yet my recently-updated
local
copy works fine.

Someone who has access to the demo site needs to check the logs.

-Adrian

Sharan-F wrote:
Hi
I'm trying to access the Hotwax Demo site and am getting the
following
message instead of the normal login screen:
org.ofbiz.widget.screen.ScreenRenderException: Error rendering
screen
[component://common/widget/CommonScreens.xml#GlobalDecorator]:
java.lang.NullPointerException (null)
Thanks
Sharan

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