James, thanks for this extensive report on your findings, although I'm running on windows right now, Centos is very interesting which i might try in the nearby future also, so thanks for these guidelines. Great you got it running :)
On Jun 27, 9:34 pm, James Buckingham <[email protected]> wrote: > Thought I'd post this separately to the last 5.1.6 announcement as > Marco you'd ask what my experience was like. > > In short - interesting :-). I have it working but here's a step by > step of what I needed to do to get it working. > > Firstly the comment that Railo 3.1.0.015 doesn't work with FarCry > 5.1.x was my first issue and thanks for pointing that as I'd spent a > whole night trying to get it to work before this. > > For those that don't know the problem I hit was this bug > -http://bugs.farcrycms.org/browse/FC-1866 > > This relates to some custom functions that are used to emulate CF tags > for use in CFScript. Railo seems to have a problem with using the > phrases "query" and "dump" as function names. Probably some reserved > names. > > ---- > > 1) So first job was to downgrade my copy of Railo which I've now moved > to the stable release of 3.0.3.000. I know that it works in versions > up from this but I felt it best to go with stable rather than beta > releases to save complication. > > 2) After a few tweaks and file uiploads I then managed to get into the > FarCry installation wizard. Everything went fine until I got to the > setup of the metadata. At that point I started getting Java StackFlow > errors. The machine I'm running this on has a few Railo instances and > there is only 256Mb of RAM. The JVM is set to default as well so the > problem here is likely to be my machine running out of memory more > than anything but it's still something to note. > > 3) I decided at that point to do a manual install. Setting up the > projects and database from a "vanilla" copy of FarCry I've got running > on my own laptop. This is where I hit the next issue :-). > > Initially I was getting a lot of errors about tables not being found. > For example dmProfile and farLog. There seems to be some case- > sensitive issue going on here and this is something I'm still hitting > now. Code is referring to different cases in both table references and > templates. I tweaked my mySQL configuration file (my.cnf) and set the > lower_case_table_names to 0 but still all this seemed to do is change > the error message. > > The only alternative I felt left was to change the tables and template > names myself to be all lower case to suit the setting and that was > letting me continue from there. Slow process though as there was a few > tables. > > 4) So at this stage I now have a Moilio template appearing and I can > log into the webtop fine. I'm still getting a lot of random errors > about different things so next job was to update the FarCry core > version I'm using from 5.1.0 to 5.1.6. > > End result - not bullet proof but FarCry is a LOT more stable thanks > to Daemon's hard work with this one ;-). > > I'm going to be using this for a website in the near future so I'll be > pushing it more over the next month or so but I thought I'd report > this incase anyone else finds it helpful. > > So just to summaries I'm now running the following - > > CentOS > Railo Community Edition 3.0.3.000 > FarCry 5.1.6 > mySQL > > Cheers, > James --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message cos you are subscribed to "farcry-dev" Google group. To post, email: [email protected] To unsubscribe, email: [email protected] For more options: http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev -------------------------------- Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/farcry -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
