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Installing Activiti in existing tomcat environment

buetti — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:47:58 GMT

Hi all,I have an ubuntu server 10.10 und an existing apache2 and tomcat installation. Now I would like to install activiti in the Tomcat container. For that I would like to use a mysql database. I created the database 'activiti' with the user 'activiti'. Now I configure the build files as in the att

Re: Installing Activiti in existing tomcat environment

jbarrez — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:35:14 GMT

Is your Tomcat running? (ie can you access http:localhost:8080 ?)

Can you post the logs of your tomcat. You can find them under /tomcat/logs/

Re: Installing Activiti in existing tomcat environment

buetti — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:59:33 GMT

hi,

I attached the log files. And "Yes" my tomcat is running..

Re: Installing Activiti in existing tomcat environment

jbarrez — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:12:57 GMT

And "Yes" my tomcat is running…

Just had to be sure 😉

It looks like there is nothing installed from the Activiti webapps. Are there actually Activiti webapplications installed under /webapps ?

Re: Installing Activiti in existing tomcat environment

buetti — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:04:00 GMT

I think so. Under the webapps-Folder I can see all activiti packages…

Re: Installing Activiti in existing tomcat environment

jbarrez — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:26:21 GMT

Is something installed in your MySQL database? If yes, then we at least know that the script has run successfully …

Re: Installing Activiti in existing tomcat environment

buetti — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:47:15 GMT

Yes, the tables were all succesfully created!

Re: Installing Activiti in existing tomcat environment

jbarrez — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:18:05 GMT

Ok, now thats really odd .. so you have

- database is created
- wars are deployed

but nothing boots up … I'm kinda out of ideas here

Re: Installing Activiti in existing tomcat environment

buetti — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:36:36 GMT

I didn't get it: All installation routines went fine, but I can't call activiti-probe, cycle etc.. Is it really so hard to install activiti in an existing tomcat environment? It is a very fresh ubuntu installation.

I would like to get it working. I attached the installation log file, maybe you see something, which I do not?!

Many thanks
Ben

Re: Installing Activiti in existing tomcat environment

jbarrez — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:31:20 GMT

Indeed, the installation seems to go just fine:
[unzip] Expanding: /etc/activiti/setup/build/activiti-explorer.war into /etc/tomcat6/webapps/activiti-explorer
I'm using a plain Ubuntu VM each time to test new releases, so I'm quite assured it works on a plain Ubuntu with a JDK and ant installed on it.

The only thing I can think of now, looking at your Tomcat logs, is that you are starting the wrong Tomcat instance.
How are you starting Tomcat? Where is it installed?

Re: Installing Activiti in existing tomcat environment

buetti — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:08:57 GMT

I get it! The /etc/tomcat6 folder is wrong. You have to set the path /var/lib/tomcat6 as tomcat_home in the build.xml. Now it works!

Thanks for your help.

Re: Installing Activiti in existing tomcat environment

buetti — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:57:27 GMT

I just tried it out an all went fine. I can call cycle, explorer, etc.. but I can't use the modeler! ;( There is a folder called "activiti-modeler" and also the modeler.war file in the webapps folder. What I have to do to get the modeler working?? Any ideas?