Hi, folks! I am a forrest newbie. I started to play with it a few days ago. My first question is in the subject: Does Forrest 0.7 require the system to be connected to internet? I am running it on WinXP, SP2, Java 1.5. After unzipping and seeding a new project I tried to compile a static site, but got a bunch of errors:
- cut ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Apache Forrest. Run 'forrest -projecthelp' to list options Buildfile: C:\Apache\forrest\main\forrest.build.xml check-java-version: This is apache-forrest-0.7 Using Java 1.5 from C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_02\jre init-plugins: Copying 1 file to C:\P\WEB\forseed\build\tmp Copying 1 file to C:\P\WEB\forseed\build\tmp Copying 1 file to C:\P\WEB\forseed\build\tmp Copying 1 file to C:\P\WEB\forseed\build\tmp Installing plugin: org.apache.forrest.plugin.output.pdf check-plugin: org.apache.forrest.plugin.output.pdf is not available in the build dir fetch-plugins-descriptors: Fetching plugins descriptor: http://forrest.apache.org/plugins/plugins.xml Getting: http://forrest.apache.org/plugins/plugins.xml Error getting http://forrest.apache.org/plugins/plugins.xml to C:\P\WEB\forseed\build\tmp\plugins-1.xml Fetching plugins descriptor: http://forrest.apache.org/plugins/whiteboard-plugins.xml Getting: http://forrest.apache.org/plugins/whiteboard-plugins.xml Error getting http://forrest.apache.org/plugins/whiteboard-plugins.xml to C:\P\WEB\forseed\build\tmp\plugins-2.xml WARNING ======= Unable to load plugin list number 1 from http://forrest.apache.org/plugins/plugins.xml. Any plugins identified in this plugin list cannot be installed automatially, see further errors below. WARNING ======= Unable to load plugin list number 2 from http://forrest.apache.org/plugins/whiteboard-plugins.xml. Any plugins identified in this plugin list cannot be installed automatially, see further errors below. unpack-plugin: ERROR ===== Unable to retrieve the org.apache.forrest.plugin.output.pdf plugin. There may be more information about the reason for this in output above. The usual cause is that Forrest has been unable to download the plugin descriptor file that indicates where this plugin is to be downloaded from. If you are behind a firewall then set the proxy.host and proxy.port values in the forrest.properties file. You may also like to check the value of the forrest.plugins.descriptors property in the forrest.properties file and ensure that the locations indicated by that value are accessible (note there should be no spaces in this property). - cut ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- After I have set up the proxy details in the forrest.properties file, it run successfully. That is why I ask the question. Possible workaround: In the forrest output, the following row can be seen: org.apache.forrest.plugin.output.pdf is not available in the build dir In the FORREST_HOME directory there is a "build" dir and a "plugins" dir which contains pdf plugin. After I have copied the plugins dir into the build dir, the static content could be compiled too. Is this the correct workaround? Or, is this a correction of the directory structure redesign error? Thanks for help. Best regards, Petr Posik
