On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Dave Viner wrote:
> Hi Vladimir,
> I agree with you. We need more information in the HowTos for installing
> and using xindice and tomcat. However, I personally like to take things in
i am doing some updates to your doc 'fixme's for linux
and - before I needlessly go off on a tangent - i have a
couple questions for other linux users:
My Env: RH Linux v8
JDK1.3.1_06
Tomcat v4.1.12 (RPM distro)
Cocoon v2.0.3 (binary)
Xindice CVS
A) Tomcat v4.1.12
BUG #1
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Tomcat won't unpack the $CATALINA_HOME/webapp/*.war files for me.
I have to do this myself.
I read the mailing list items on this, and i found 3 open
bugs on it in bugzilla. i tried messing with 'reloadable' flag
etc but no joy. Developers' notes: this is a 'feature' when
reloadable=true(?)
Unless someone knows of a correction that i haven't tried yet,
i plan to write the doc instructing users to use the standard
procedures (put .war in webapps), then add a note that they
*may* need to unpack the .war themselves etc. with v4.1.12
(according to dev, they *will* need to self-unpack if
reloadable flag is on ... tho mine is not ....)
Any help here w.b. much appreciated.
BUG #2
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I never read any doc about the 'tomcat4' command, but my
distro did *not* come with startup/shutdown scripts. After
nosing around, i found that 4.1.12 (RPM-only???) uses
'tomcat4 [start]|[stop]|[whathaveyou]'
i consider this a doc bug. however, i'm not sure if other
distros are still using scripts to stop/start the service.
again, i will make a note of it in the doc, unless i somehow
got hold of a weird&unusual tomcat rpm distro - plztellme;-o
QUESTION #1
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i don't see instructions in our howto for editing
$CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml file. does win need to?
tomcat neophytes (like me) may need some guidance here.
i am not an authority, i fudged my settings:
reloadable=false (better performance & not needed)
crossContext=true (being friendly w our friends)
then i associated a FileLogger just for yucks
(your comments r welcome)
B) cocoon 2.0.3 w tomcat 4.1.12 (i.e. not for Tomcat howto)
NOTE: i spinelessly installed the binary ver for my JDK
i get a SQLException when tomcat loads cocoon, complaining about
the 'cocoondb.properties'. It is a File I/O error (and yes,
the modified property=no in the file)
checked buzilla and got 'Zarro Boogs found.'
i have ignored it, but - unless someone knows what's going
wrong - i will try to track down the problem before
writing the doc (geez doancha hate a 'howto' telling you to
ignore unknown errors...)
And that, my friends, is all i have to ask you about that.
