slightly off-topic, replacing tomcat default servlet with uri tojetspeed?

2002-12-19 Thread Eric White
I'm rummaging around on various websites trying to find the incantation to replace the default Tomcat servlet with my portal. I'd really like to try and avoid hacking /etc/tomcat4/server.xml or /etc/tomcat4/web.xml if I can, but I've been unable to usurp the default servlet that is mapped to / in

minimal psml for empty anon user page

2002-12-18 Thread Eric White
I'm using the following PSML for the anon user because I don't want anything displayed until the portal visitor logs in. However, this (portlet) empty psml is generating java stack exceptions in my jetspeed.log, so clearly I've not got this correct. Any suggestions are welcome: ?xml version=1.0

RE: minimal psml for empty anon user page

2002-12-18 Thread Eric White
sorry, I should have noted the platform: Jetspeed 1.4b3 (from the CVS tag) on Linux, against a MySQL backend On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 16:17, David Sean Taylor wrote: -Original Message- From: Eric White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 2:10 PM

RE: minimal psml for empty anon user page

2002-12-18 Thread Eric White
this works perfectly (got rid of the stack trace in the log). thanks On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 17:07, David Sean Taylor wrote: -Original Message- From: Eric White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 2:10 PM To: Jetspeed Users List Subject: minimal psml

trying to modify the Login screen

2002-12-17 Thread Eric White
I'm using 1.4b3 on Linux, with MySQL backing the security and PSML databases. Also, I've set the default TemplateService to JSP. I'm trying to remove the Create a New Account link from the login page. I've modified Login.jsp and renamed it to TestLogin.jsp and made a corresponding change to

cache misses killing me, help with manually editing user table

2002-12-17 Thread Eric White
so, cache misses are killing me right now. Yesterday, I thought they were a result of running two Jetspeed portals inside the same Tomcat instance. I've got 1.4b3 running on Linux, with security and psml backed by MySQL. However, I'm seeing cache misses in the log: [Tue Dec 17 16:47:58 CST

RE: cache misses killing me, help with manually editing user table

2002-12-17 Thread Eric White
This is happening with the Admin user, immediately upon login, so it's trying to load the default panes/portlets that the Admin user has in the profile (I haven't changed that profile). I'm only assuming the cache miss is my problem because that's all I see in the log (I've got debug logging

RE: trying to modify the Login screen

2002-12-17 Thread Eric White
= topnav.user_login.enable=true topnav.user_creation.enable=false and am still seeing the Create User link on the login page. On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 10:00, Aurelien Pernoud wrote: In jetspeedresources.properties, change this : topnav.user_creation.enable=true to false Aurelien Pernoud Eric White

RE: cache misses killing me, help with manually editing user table

2002-12-17 Thread Eric White
:37, David Sean Taylor wrote: -Original Message- From: Eric White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 9:13 AM To: Jetspeed Users List Subject: RE: cache misses killing me, help with manually editing user table This is happening with the Admin

RE: cache misses killing me, help with manually editing user table

2002-12-17 Thread Eric White
- From: Eric White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 9:50 AM To: Jetspeed Users List Subject: RE: cache misses killing me, help with manually editing user table no joy, same behavior. Is there a backdoor way I can add Admin authority to an existing user

mysterious hangs with 1.4b2, bring in the cavalry

2002-12-16 Thread Eric White
I've just pulled the last hair from my head ... please help me avoid further self-mutilation. I'm using 1.4b2 on linux under Tomcat 4.1.12 -- I pulled those sources from CVS using the 1.4b2 tag. I've been able to set up several portals and have configured them to use MySQL as the auth/auth DB,

Re: mysterious hangs with 1.4b2, bring in the cavalry

2002-12-16 Thread Eric White
in MYSQL, so I don't think there is a db conflict. Is there some restriction on running a single portal per Tomcat installation? ... I could really use some help here. On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 14:18, Eric White wrote: I've just pulled the last hair from my head ... please help me avoid further self

Re: mysterious hangs with 1.4b2, bring in the cavalry

2002-12-16 Thread Eric White
, and a search of cache miss object expired on the user email list brought up 19 matches. I noticed the problem disapear on Linux when I moved to JDK-1.4. The big mystery is that I do not recall anyone ever posting a solution, just that they experienced the problem. Glen Eric White wrote

Re: mysterious hangs with 1.4b2, bring in the cavalry

2002-12-16 Thread Eric White
that the cache is looking for ...anon/en/html/default.psml/103 and the path to this item really is ...anon/html/en/default.psml/103 where the language specifier succeeds the media type (html). Unless the cache is indexed differently than items layed out on disk On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 16:37, Eric White

skipping the anon screen?

2002-12-15 Thread Eric White
I'd like to set up a portal that does not display an anonymous screen, but forces the user to log in immediately. In fact, I was thinking of handling the authentication outside of Jetspeed at the Tomcat level (HTTP Authentication), but was wondering how to pass those credentials in to Jetspeed.

1.4b2 binary release deployment errors

2002-12-13 Thread Eric White
I've pulled down the 1.4b2 binary release (of the source version) and have deployed it under Tomcat 4.1.12 and simply can't get the silly thing to run, I keep seeing the following in the tomcat log file, any help is greatly appreciated: 2002-12-13 21:13:47 HostConfig[localhost]: Expanding web

property setting to encrypt pwds?

2002-12-06 Thread Eric White
I've got the latest cvs bits and have configured jetspeed to use mysql for both user auth/auth (TURBINE_USER table) and PSML store (JETSPEED_USER). I've noticed that user pwds are stored in the db as clear text and was wondering if there is a setting to have turbine encrypt/decrypt these pwds so

explanation of how build import works?

2002-12-06 Thread Eric White
I've got the latest cvs bits and have jetspeed configured against a DB for PSML storage. I don't quite understand how build import works. After I load the psml schema and do a build import I thought, operationally, that I'd modify the psml files on disk (e.g., .../anon/html/default.psml) and

RE: explanation of how build import works?

2002-12-06 Thread Eric White
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 14:57, David Sean Taylor wrote: Hi Eric, You should only need to run it once to get the initial files off the disk and into the db. The steps are: 1. change the PSML service properties #

turbine jsp errors after new user creation

2002-12-05 Thread Eric White
I working with a 3Dec CVS snapshot. Jetspeed's up under Tomcat 4.1.12 on a Linux box and humming along. Logging in as admin/jetspeed, I create a new user ewhite/ewhite. I log out of Jetspeed and log in as ewhite/ewhite and get a Java stack dump in the browser. Upon examining Jetspeed's logs, I

jetspeed.properties customizations via the bluesunrise tutorial?

2002-12-05 Thread Eric White
I'm using 3Dec bits from cvs. I've set up jetspeed to use JSP as the default scripting language I have both user auth/auth and psml in a mysql database At first, I'd made my nav and layout customizations directly into the JSP scripts. I've been reading the bluesunrise tutorial, which seems

RE: trying to import psml to DB from file system

2002-12-04 Thread Eric White
Bluesunrise.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] +01 (707) 773 4646 -Original Message- From: Eric White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 4:11 PM To: Jetspeed Users List Subject: trying to import psml to DB from file system subject line says it all. :-) nice I *think

RE: trying to import psml to DB from file system

2002-12-04 Thread Eric White
successfully (verified by doing a manual query in MySQL). FYI On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 09:53, Eric White wrote: sorry, should have given more detail in the original post: I'm using the CVS tips from midday on 12/3/02 and I've modified torque.properties to include my own torque.properties file

error log about missing default.jsp

2002-12-03 Thread Eric White
I've just synced to the latest CVS tips and have configured against a MySQL DB for my user auth/auth. I created a new user (ewhite) successfully and verified that the user ended up in the MySQL jetspeed.TURBINE_USER table. I logged out of Jetspeed and logged back in using the new user account

trying to import psml to DB from file system

2002-12-03 Thread Eric White
subject line says it all. I *think* I've followed the instructions at http://jakarta.apache.org/jetspeed/site/psml_db.html but I'm seeing the following after doing a ./build.sh import compile: import: [java] * PSML Importer * [java] Exception in thread main java.lang.Error:

RE: dynamic pane population upon startup?

2002-11-27 Thread Eric White
object based on User request + possible db connections. You'll be able to reuse your profile information when ever you have access to RunData and it guarantees separation of your profiling logic and the way you build this profiling information. De : Eric White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I'd

dynamic pane population upon startup?

2002-11-26 Thread Eric White
I'd like to define a single portlet then, upon startup, dynamically populate a pane with several instances of the aforementioned portlet, each driven with different configuration data (most likely driven from a database). Can anybody point me to reference material (or, better yet, example code)

RE: dynamic pane population upon startup?

2002-11-26 Thread Eric White
parent=DatabaseBrowserTest/ entry parent=SomeotherDatabaseBasedPortlet/ ... /portlets -Original Message- From: Eric White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 1:59 PM To: Jetspeed Users List Subject: dynamic pane population upon startup

porlet templates

2002-11-21 Thread Eric White
I've configured Jetspeed to use JSP rather than Velocity. However it appears that vm templates are the sole means of governing portlet display. I say this because looking at the DatabaseBrowserPortlet xreg section, I could only find the database-browser-portlet and the database-browser-customize

location of portlets.browser.DatabaseBrowserAction?

2002-11-21 Thread Eric White
I'm looking at the xregs entry for the demo DatabaseBrowserPortlet and I see where the action parameter's value is set to portlets.browser.DatabaseBrowserAction. I also see where, in the VelocityPortlet constructor, the value of the action parameter is retrieved and an ActionLoader is

Advice/guidance on stylesheets vs skins

2002-11-20 Thread Eric White
I've synced to CVS and am using the tip sources and having configure Jetspeed to use JSP in /layouts/html/en/default.jsp there is a line in the head section: link href=%= TurbineResources.getString( site.stylesheet ) % type=text/css rel=stylesheet which I interpret to mean, go get the

accessing mysql from a dbbrowser portlet

2002-11-19 Thread Eric White
I don't want to replace hypersonic as the user/group/role db under Jetspeed, I just want to access a mysql db from a dbbrowser portlet (one that I'd write or hijack from the demos/examples). But, I'm looking for the special sauce recipe of tasks I'm supposed to perform. Can somebody point me to

reference to jetspeed 1.4b2?

2002-11-19 Thread Eric White
In the Configure Guide section of the Jetspeed page (http://jakarta.apache.org/jetspeed/site/override_props.html), there is mention of a mechanism supporting custom properties, but the last sentence specifically references version 1.4b2. Is this feature something that's only available from a

RE: accessing mysql from a dbbrowser portlet

2002-11-19 Thread Eric White
) On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 11:36, David Sean Taylor wrote: -Original Message- From: Eric White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 6:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: accessing mysql from a dbbrowser portlet I don't want to replace hypersonic as the user

RE: accessing mysql from a dbbrowser portlet

2002-11-19 Thread Eric White
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 15:20, David Sean Taylor wrote: -Original Message- From: Eric White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 7:00 AM To: Jetspeed Users List Subject: RE: accessing mysql from a dbbrowser portlet great info. I've got

RE: accessing mysql from a dbbrowser portlet

2002-11-19 Thread Eric White
, 2002-11-19 at 16:18, David Sean Taylor wrote: -Original Message- From: Eric White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 2:07 PM To: Jetspeed Users List Subject: RE: accessing mysql from a dbbrowser portlet I left the original entries alone. I want

RE: accessing mysql from a dbbrowser portlet

2002-11-19 Thread Eric White
own little world)? On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 18:13, David Sean Taylor wrote: -Original Message- From: Eric White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 2:52 PM To: Jetspeed Users List Subject: RE: accessing mysql from a dbbrowser portlet using the 1.4b1