OS X Problem with 2.9.0B

Hi;

My Install proceeded without any Errors but Alfresco was not accessable – Port 8080 was closed! Stopping tomcat didnt work (hangs forever) and not a single line was in the Tomcat Log File. That way i have no idea what went wrong.

My Setup is a Macpro with 10 GB RAM running Leopard with latest Patches and all Java Updates applied. Maybe someone has a Idea what went wrong or what to try ?

PS Why Tomcat and not a real Appserver like Glassfish or whatever ???

hb

Hi;

Ok – it was a simple ENV VAR Problem with Tomcat (JRE_HOME undefined). Seems to work now.
I still would like to see such a Bundle with glassfish instead of Tomcat (like Liferay).

PS Btw nice Idea to build such Opensource Software Bundles with a point & click Installer.

hb

Hi,

Have you tried to start using ctlscript.sh?

cd /Applications/alfresco-*
./ctlscript.sh start

Thanks for the suggestion. There are a lot of good Java servers such as JBoss, Glassfish, Jetty, Geronimo, etc. We are working to modularize all applications and servers, so in the future you can select the server and the application list that you want to install.

Cheers

Hi;

Yup – i tried the script. The output of that script provided the hint what went wrong. It calls startup.sh from tomcat/bin were JRE_HOME was set to /usr (= wrong place).

PS Choosing a Modul (App Server) would be even better g

hb

I’m struggling with this problem now (OS X 10.5.6) and am not finding where to set the new directory at, or what to. Can you please elaborate on what lines in what config files we need to change?

Mine appears in the setclasspath.sh file to be pointing to /System/Library/Frameworks/ JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5/Home but there is also a 1.6 under versions, is that the problem? With all the options covered I can’t figure out for sure where it should be defined.

Thanks!

Hi,

At the head of “<installation_directory>/apache-tomcat/scripts/ctl.sh” you can find the value of JRE_HOME. Could you post your value? Could you see any error in the tomcat log file “<installation_directory>/apache-tomcat/logs/catalina.out”?

Cheers.

It is JRE_HOME=/System/Library/Frameworks/ JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home (which I verified in terminal is correct path to 1.5, unless it is supposed to access a subdirectory or file?)

No, no entries in any log file I could find (including catalina.out).

Not sure if it matters, doubt it, but I had previously installed the bitnami Liferay stack. I tried installing Alfresco first with LifeRay running on 8080 and selecting different ports, then when that didn’t startup I uninstalled, shutdown liferay and restarted the computer, installed Alfresco again, no diff. Anything else I can answer to help debug am happy to, looking fwd to trying this.

Thank you for these installs, they are fantastic!