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Startup error: 'webscripts must exist; it was not found

cfralic — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:01:18 GMT

Hello,I am currently having a problem with our Alfresco installation. A few days ago I needed to reboot the server running our Alfresco installation. I shutdown Alfresco and rebooted the machine but after it came back up when I tried to start Alfresco I get the following error in my Alfresco.log f

Re: Startup error: 'webscripts must exist; it was not found

davidc — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:27:47 GMT

You don't know if your Data Dictionary is missing yet?

Remove

<property name="mustExist"><value>true</value></property>
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from

web-scripts-application-context.xml
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and restart.

That should at least let you diagnose the cause of your problem.

Re: Startup error: 'webscripts must exist; it was not found

cfralic — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:45:53 GMT

Thanks for the quick response!

I commented out the two lines

from

web-scripts-application-context.xml‍

and restarted Alfresco and it came up without any errors


11:40:15,738 WARN  [org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiRegistryFactoryBean] Could not detect RMI registry - creating new one
11:40:19,723 WARN  [org.alfresco.util.OpenOfficeConnectionTester] A connection to OpenOffice could not be established.
11:40:25,579 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.domain.schema.SchemaBootstrap] No changes were made to the schema.
11:40:31,266 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker] The Alfresco root data directory ('dir.root') is: /vmdrive2/Alfresco/alf_data
11:40:31,711 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.admin.patch.PatchExecuter] Checking for patches to apply …
11:40:31,871 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.module.ModuleServiceImpl] Found 0 module(s).
11:40:32,213 INFO  [org.alfresco.service.descriptor.DescriptorService] Alfresco JVM - v1.5.0_08-b03; maximum heap size 616.313MB
11:40:32,215 INFO  [org.alfresco.service.descriptor.DescriptorService] Alfresco started (Community Network): Current version 2.1.0 (R1 443) schema 62 - Installed version 2.1.0 (R1 443) schema 62
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When I logged in sure enough the Data Dictionary was missing. I am going to try importing the Data Dictionary .acp file I created from a new install and then add those lines back in.

Thank you very much for your help!

Re: Startup error: 'webscripts must exist; it was not found

steve — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:38:00 GMT

Hi,

If it was deleted you should be able to restore it from the 'Manage Deleted Items' screen…

Login as admin, go to User Profile, then Manage Deleted Items. You can recover the space from there.

Steve

Re: Startup error: 'webscripts must exist; it was not found

cfralic — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:50:56 GMT

I did find the Data Dictionary space in the "Delete Items" once it was recovered I changed the file mentioned above and added the two lines back in. On restart there were no errors and everything seems to be working fine. I am going to lock the "Data Dictionary" directory down so that this should not happen again.

Thanks once again for all your help.

Re: Startup error: 'webscripts must exist; it was not found

raul_bhatia — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:53:46 GMT

Hello,

My data dictionary is missing too and I think it is a bug in the 2.1.0 release. I tried to recover it using your instructions Steve, but it gives me an error on recovery:


Failed to recover the item "Data Dictionary" due to error: Class definition projectsummary does not exist.
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I would greatly apreciate any help. I cannot upload any content in an alfresco portlet in liferay. I think it might be due to this. Any ideas?
-In need of help.

Re: Startup error: 'webscripts must exist; it was not found

aniketvast — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:01:23 GMT

I have the exact same problem after a FULL reindex on 2.1.1 enterprise.
After commenting the mustExists property the server comes back up.
However my DataDictionary and Webscripts directories were present. They weren't missing at all.
In that case why would I get this error?

Does it have to do anything with the Re-indexing parameters used and the way the indexes were created?

-Aniket