Forum Problems Installing LAMS: Installation problem

By: Jun-Dir Liew

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Hi Peter,

Have you tried accessing LAMS by appending /lams to the end? It appears you are accessing it through (for example) www.yoursite.com. Try www.yoursite.com/lams/ instead. Or www.yoursite.com:8080/lams/ if you haven't changed the port number.

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By: Peter Hodge

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Thanks,

But I had tried /lams with and without the port and received the same error message.

The unix_install script does not complete giving the URI error, I have put Localhost and the FQN in the relevant parts of the LAMS.settings script.

I have tried to do the install by following the manual method for Solaris, making the relevant changes due to directory structure etc., and editing the build.xml script in ant, but still no success.

I was wondering whether or not the tomcat server was responding and how to check that.

The jboss installation works and the JMX console appears with the port 8080 or without. Does JBoss use the tomcat server?

Posted by Peter Hodge

By: Jun-Dir Liew

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Ah OK. I think JBoss has started, but LAMS has not been properly deployed.

Could you attach your boot.log and server.log? Might help to see the error that stopped LAMS from loading. These files are located in $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/log/.

>I was wondering whether or not the tomcat server was responding and how to check that.
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>The jboss installation works and the JMX console appears with the port 8080 or without. Does JBoss use the tomcat server?

Yeah, JBoss uses the Tomcat server. You can tell JBoss is running from the error in your original post, which is basically Tomcat saying that it has nothing to display for the URL that was requested. If Tomcat weren't running on that port, it would display 'Page not found' or 'Connection not responding', etc.

Cheers,

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By: Peter Hodge

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Thanks for the help.

Here are the logs

Posted by Peter Hodge

By: Jun-Dir Liew

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Couldn't see anything specific in the logs, except for this

2005-10-17 09:07:17,017 INFO [org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer] Starting deployment of package: file:/usr/local/jboss/server/default/deploy/tomcat41-service.xml
2005-10-17 09:07:17,043 ERROR [org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer] could not create deployment: file:/usr/local/jboss/server/default/deploy/tomcat41-service.xml
org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: instantiating org.jboss.web.catalina.EmbeddedCatalinaService41 failed: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/servlet/ServletContext; - nested throwable: (RuntimeErrorException: instantiating org.jboss.web.catalina.EmbeddedCatalinaService41 failed: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/servlet/ServletContext
Cause: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/servlet/ServletContext)

I think you have an improper jboss installation. I would reinstall it manually using the lams server package (lams-server1.0.1.zip) and using the steps at http://www.lamsinternational.com/documentation/manual_p.php?os=redhat#LAMS as a guide. There's no reason it shouldn't work on SuSe 9 as we have two boxes that run on it.

Sorry I can't give more specific advice, but if you're willing to wait a week or so, there should be installers for 1.0.2 available on the LAMS websites (along with updated manuals).

Posted by Jun-Dir Liew

By: Ian Boston

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If you edit the tomcat-4.1 deployer xml and put an absolute path name inplace of the relative path name for catalina home it works. It looks like either the relative path is just wrong or jbos on linux doesnt like the relative path.

It removed this error for me, after 3 hours or restarting jboss, Im not a Jboss expert, but every time I deploy a jboss app something like this goes wrong.... sorry.

HTH

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By: Jun-Dir Liew

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Another thing is, if you're starting LAMS from the command line, make sure you are in the jboss/bin directory before running run.sh. If you do, say, 'cd /path/to/jboss' then 'bin/run.sh &', it won't work.

Posted by Jun-Dir Liew

By: Peter Hodge

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Hi Jun-Dir Liew,

Thanks for all your help.

Finally got it working, it seemed to be a combination problem between JBoss and MySQL. They were causing seperate problems and when you pointed me in the right direction it all finally fell into place.

Regards,

Peter

Posted by Peter Hodge