On 2/20/2010 5:18 PM, John Davis wrote: > I am not a Debian user, Fedora myself but, minimally you need to > follow the wiki installation notes. If by wiki notes you mean this:
http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/wiki/InstallationDebian Yes, I did. Unfortunately a lot of it points to rotten links and so I had to seek alternative sources for things like swftools as I indicated in my original note. > You need the binary distribution > for OM Debian which is on this site. Which I used as indicated in my original note. > You need FFMPEG, SOX, Yup, all there and appear to be working. > swftools, > This is one of the links that's rotten, and why I indicated I used the Ubuntu package. > OpenOffice installed and working. And it is, or at least seems to be based on limited testing. > Once you have that install a > database it doesn't matter as several are support. I don't understand what you are saying here. I've got MySQL installed and it seems to be working correctly. Are you just saying that I can use it or PostGres or whatever else will handle the queries? > In your case one > with a good GUI tool for creating a database. I can manage the command line, but the problem I saw is that the script created a user, but no database. I figured that the process had failed and I'd need to create a database and the table structure as well. > You have to create the > database yourself the code doesn't do it. This is a key piece of information I was missing, and specifically asking for. > Once created the code will > create all the tables and default data, But, you need a datbase to > begin with, openmeeting will do nothing without the database. > Okay, I'll do this > I would start with installing the database first create the user the > instruction say and then create the database. > This is where I'm getting a disconnect and seeing a dearth of information. I have MySQL installed and the script created a user, but no database or tables. > Then install openmeetings and run it. You may even have to configure > the connection to the database depending on how you set it up. > Done, and where the substantial log data came from. > Then come back to the forum and ask some questions. A fast way to get > ignored on the forum is to post question that don't make sense. > > Well, I tried to ask a sensible question and provide enough information to indicate what I had tried and where I was. It appears I didn't provide enough detail. > On Feb 20, 3:45 pm, RiIch Osman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm looking for suggestions on where to look for diagnostic information. >> >> I'm trying to set up a small openmeetings server. I'm having trouble >> getting started so I set up a clean base Debian 5.0 server to minimize >> the number of variables I'm chasing. I don't really understand what's >> happening "behind the curtain" but I'm trying to learn. >> >> I'm using the red5-openmeetings_1.0.2760.noarch.deb package. The Debian >> repositories have dropped swftools for want of a maintainer. I couldn't >> resolve a libjpeg problem creating 0.9.0 from source so I used >> swftools_0.9.0-0ubuntu1_i386.deb which seems to work fine. >> >> I thought a had a probelm with IPv4 ports not being bound, but Sebastian >> Wagner helped me learn there wasn't a problem (Thanks!) >> >> It looks like next hurdle is MySQL related. I'm not finding the >> openmeeting database. The user has been created, but no database has >> been. When I try and runhttp://xx.xx.xx.xx:5080/openmeetings/install >> the console scrolls messages as fast as it can. It alll seems related >> to this basic error: >> >> Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: No database selected >> >> I haven't spotted the installation code that creates the database, or a >> log file that indicates what the original failure might have been. I >> was going to create the database by hand, but I'm not sure of it's >> structure. >> >> I'm also not seeing the behavior I expect with the red5 install. I get >> the index page and the installation page comes up and lets me select and >> install demos, but when I try and run them I get a 404 page that says >> "*description* _The requested resource (/demos) is not available._" If >> I go back and try and reselect the demo for installation, I get the >> indication that it's already installed. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenMeetings User" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/openmeetings-user?hl=en.
