Thanks for the quick response. Java 1.5 is no longer available in repositories for Ubuntu 9.10, AFAIK. Debian 5.0 offers either 1.5 or 1.6.
I did not type in /ecommerce, so now I feel stupid. I thought it used to bring up a default page if you didn't specify, but maybe I am wrong. It certainly seems odd to serve a BLANK page (no error/unconfigured page like apache's "it works" page) by default. Any idea on the rationale behind that? Seems like both Opentaps and Neogia (when I looked at them a year ago or so) threw up a default page with several apps accessible by a click from there. Or maybe my mind is going... On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 18:33 -0500, Ruth Hoffman wrote: > Hi Matt: > I've been told several times that you only need Java 1.6 for a trunk > release. > I use Java 1.5 for everything I do including a recent (about 3 weeks > ago) download and verification of the 9.04 release. > Did you type in http://localhost:8080/ecommerce? or http://localhost:8080/ > > Regards, > Ruth > ---------------------------------------------------- > Find me on the web at http://www.myofbiz.com or Google keyword "myofbiz" > ruth.hoff...@myofbiz.com > > Matt Warnock wrote: > > Trying to get ofbiz up and running as a new install, though this isn't > > my first attempt (in the past, I got farther, but last attempt was a > > year ago or more). Running under Debian 5.0 and Ubuntu 9.10 with > > sun-java6-jdk installed from distribution repositories. Have downloaded > > ofbiz 4.0, 9.04, and trunk, unpacking each into their default separate > > directories under /opt. > > > > With all three versions I see the same behavior. When I start them > > using ./startofbiz.sh, they go through the verbose startup procedure > > without apparent error (nothing in runtime/logs/error.log). > > > > When I connect to localhost:8080, I see nothing. Blank page. > > > > In runtime/logs/debug.log, there are some entries that read e.g. > > "characters( )" and "Pushing body text ' ' " but with a lot > > more spaces between the respective delimiters. > > > > Any ideas or suggestions? Do I need to be running jdk 1.5 instead? I > > saw conflicting instructions on that subject on the Net. > > > > > > > > -- Matt Warnock <mwarn...@ridgecrestherbals.com> RidgeCrest Herbals, Inc.
