Hi Frank, > Hi Clemens, > >> I have to admit that I have been running out of ideas why the wiki cannot >> get a connection while "curl" can. >> >> One last try: has the gateway connecting the local network to the internet >> an application firewall or the like ? >> Something that sniffs user-agents for http connections and only allows >> "known ones" ? > > Not to my knowledge, but see below > > >> The java client used by the XWiki installation wizard might be emulated with: >> >> curl --user-agent "history" http://extensions.xwiki.org
bad info given by me here, sorry; it should read: curl --user-agent "XWikiExtensionManager" http://extensions.xwiki.org anyway, this seems not to be the problem ... because the other bogus user agent works as well: > > $ curl --user-agent "history" http://extensions.xwiki.org > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> > <html><head> > <title>302 Found</title> > </head><body> > <h1>Found</h1> > <p>The document has moved <a > href="http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome";>here</a>.</p> > </body></html> > $ > > > >> if this works, too, I have to admit I have no clue why it does not work. >> (Btw, there should be an error message in the log files. Is there anything >> like that?) > > In fact, there is a single error being printed to logs/catalina.out /after/ I > click the "continue" button in the first step of the Distribution Manager: > > > [...] > 2016-01-28 13:36:53,762 [Active Installs Ping Thread] WARN > a.i.c.ActiveInstallsPingThread - Failed to send Active Installation ping to > [http://extensions.xwiki.org/activeinstalls]. Error = [ConnectException: > Connection timed out]. Will retry in [86400] seconds... > [...] > > > I don't know what an "Active Installation ping" is, but in fact while I seem > to be able to access this webpage: > > $ curl http://extensions.xwiki.org/activeinstalls > { > "status" : 200, > "name" : "Bobster", > "version" : { > "number" : "1.1.1", > "build_hash" : "f1585f096d3f3985e73456debdc1a0745f512bbc", > "build_timestamp" : "2014-04-16T14:27:12Z", > "build_snapshot" : false, > "lucene_version" : "4.7" > }, > "tagline" : "You Know, for Search" > } > $ > > > I cannot `ping` it: > > $ ping extensions.xwiki.org > PING www.xwiki.org (104.31.71.57) 56(84) bytes of data. > ^C > --- www.xwiki.org ping statistics --- > 76 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 75445ms > > $ > > Does the Distribution Manager execute a real "ping" command even though the > webpages are accessible? And if yes, how can I avoid this? I doubt that our > networking dept. will adapt any gateway configuration to to make a single > software installation possible :-} No, there is no ping or such; well, it relies on the library: "HTTP Components": https://hc.apache.org/ to do the job. I have to admit that I do not know exactly if this library does or does not send a ping first, but I do not think it does. Even if it were so, it is not the case of the problem, as I cannot ping extensions.xwiki.org either, and install works from here. The "timeout" error message seems to indicate that the connection never gets an error but is simply dropped somewhere. I do not think extensions.xwiki.org drops the connection - as you can get there via curl ... Any chance the application server uses some proxy settings, as described at the following link, but they happen to be incorrect? http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Installation#HRunningXWikibehindproxy-server That might explain the timeout despite the server being able to reach the installation repositories normally (i.e. via curl). I have to admit that if it is not the proxy-settings then I am getting somewhat desperate about how to diagnose the problem. I guess one could try to get stack traces from the server while it is starting up and use the java option "-Djavax.net.debug=all" (dumps lots of stuff to the standard output) to see if it tries to open connections to extensions.xwiki.org but I guess all one can get from that is that the server opens connections and then it waits till timeout ... If you just want to get the server running with a proper UI anyway, I have written up a little HowTo : http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/FillLocalMavenRepository To use it, one needs to install + configure maven, however ... I am still using maven 3.0.4 from http://archive.apache.org/dist/maven/maven-3/3.0.4/binaries/apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.zip but to just donwload the UI-packages any version of 3.x should "just work". Clemens _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
