Hi all, finally I was able to solve my problem. I removed the tomcat from the distribution and installed a tomcat 7 manually. Then everything worked as described in the manual.
Thanks to all for your help Martin On 22 April 2013 14:59, Glen Mazza <[email protected]> wrote: > No, in the first sentence of my response below I indeed identified the > class not found exception as the most obvious problem -- you didn't mention > that when you posted the stack trace in your original posting, so I didn't > know if you were aware of it (I don't know you, as far as I know you might > be a total newbie.) That you would get such an egregious OOTB error for a > vanilla install of Roller caused me to think you might have just dumped the > WAR on Tomcat without configuring a database or the > roller-custom.properties file and a random error was popping up as a > result. So maybe you were unaware of the installation guide, causing me to > ask about that. Further if you hadn't installed a database, I wanted to > refer you to the simple Derby that you can use in your initial prototyping > of Roller (I didn't want you to run away from testing Roller on account of > needing to install a more complex DBMS, nor did I want you have have to > work with the release version of the guide which doesn't cover Derby much > leaving you with a lot of wasted time guessing configuration.) > > But Ubuntu 8.04 is five years old (reaching end of life in 2011: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**Releases <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases>), > and I'm guessing, based on the location of Tomcat on your machine, that you > installed Tomcat via sudo apt-get install tomcat6 and not via a manual > install of Apache Tomcat from the Tomcat website. I would consider > updating Ubuntu and trying with a Tomcat 6 or 7 downloaded from the Apache > Tomcat website to rule out the problem being with the potentially > un-updated Tomcat packages Canonical provides for Ubuntu 8. > > Glen > > > On 04/22/2013 02:05 AM, Martin Kaiser wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I don't expect any problem with the database. I just think that Glen wants >> me to try his newly written guide ;) >> >> What I did so far is just a plain installation of tomcat on my ubuntu >> machine (think its 8.04) then I did everything written in the installation >> guide of roller upto the point where I got stuck. Maybe someone has a >> similar installation, or something like that and had the same problem? >> Maybe I put the properties file in the wrong directory? >> >> Any help appreciated... >> >> regards, >> Martin >> >> >> On 21 April 2013 18:41, Matthias Wimmer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Why do you expect a problem with the database. >>> Java is indicating, that it does not find the custom logger Log4JLogger. >>> I am just not sure if this class is expected to be there or if the user >>> having this problem has configured himself to use this logger but has not >>> configured it correctly. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Matthias >>> >>> >>> >>> Glen Mazza <[email protected]> schrieb: >>> >>> Hi Martin, clearly the class below is missing from the WAR that you >>>> deployed on Tomcat -- I wonder why. Have you followed the installation >>>> guide: >>>> http://www.apache.org/dist/**roller/roller-5/v5.0.1/docs/<http://www.apache.org/dist/roller/roller-5/v5.0.1/docs/> >>>> ? >>>> >>>> At any rate, I suspect your roller-custom.properties hasn't been >>>> populated or deployed to the tomcat_home/lib folder. Which database >>>> are >>>> you using to host the Roller data? Derby is easy to set up -- the >>>> latest guide in trunk (OpenOffice format: >>>> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/**roller/trunk/weblogger-docs/** >>>> installguide/<http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/roller/trunk/weblogger-docs/installguide/> >>>> ) >>>> >>>> has specific Derby information I just added a few days ago. >>>> >>>> HTH, >>>> Glen >>>> >>>> On 04/21/2013 08:20 AM, Martin Kaiser wrote: >>>> >>>>> Caused by: org.apache.commons.logging.**LogConfigurationException: >>>>> User-specified log class >>>>> >>>> 'org.apache.commons.logging.**impl.Log4JLogger' >>>> >>>>> cannot be found or is not useable. >>>>> >>>> -- >>> Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit K-9 Mail >>> gesendet. >>> >> >
